Will AI Obviate The Need For Animal Trials?

Quris-AI has built a platform that can simulate genetically diverse clinical trials on a chip. The technology may reduce biopharma’s need for animal testing and de-risk human testing. 

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Israeli-American biotech Quris-AI’s platform can test thousands of drug candidates on hundreds of miniaturized and genetically diverse collections of organs-on-a-chip, effectively creating a “clinical-trial-on-a-chip.” The robust AI-based approach predicts drug toxicity with a level of accuracy that won it a partnership with Merck KGaA.

“This method surpasses the limitations of traditional animal testing by leveraging vast amounts of unique, real-time data to refine machine...

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