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Intero Biosystems offers pharma companies a mini-gut instead of animals for drug testing

Intero Biosystems, a Denver startup spun out of the University of Michigan, grows human gut organoids and sells them to pharmaceutical, biotech, food and chemical companies. Interest in such models is being fueled by changes in FDA policy on moving away from animal testing. Denver-based startup Intero Biosystems, spun out of the University of Michigan, grows human intestinal organoids and sells them to pharmaceutical, biotech, food and chemical companies. Interest in such models is being fueled by changes in FDA policy on moving away from animal testing.

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