CTIDs

Using ‘clinical trials in a dish’ (CTIDs) — in which each ‘dish’ might consist of a panel of 100 organoids generated using stem cells or diseased tissues from 100 individuals, say — researchers can test therapies on a representative sample of patients before they test them in animals or in conventional clinical trials5.

Alternatives to animal testing are the future — it’s time that journals, funders and scientists embrace them Todd J. Herron 2025