In the News

The Clumps of Brain Cells That Can Play Pac-Man
What they mean for medicine and perhaps the future of AI data centers.
28bio Announces Nexon™ Neurotechnology Platform Powered by Engineered Human Brains
28bio today announced the Nexon™ neurotechnology platform—a major advancement in understanding human brain function.
FDA’s Shift From Animal Testing Opens Doors for Organoid Makers
The idea that a mouse brain or a rat brain or any other animal brain can predict how a human brain would react to a particular drug—it's not credible. Yet up until this point, this has been the only solution that pharma has had available to them.

Spotlights

28bioGRANT for Neurodegenerative Disease
The 28bioGRANT for Neurodegenerative Disease is designed to assist academic researchers in their pursuit to understand the human biological underpinnings of these diseases and translate those insights into potential therapeutic strategies.
Organoid Neurotoxicity Testing Embraced by FDA and NIH
Scientists and regulators have long acknowledged the weaknesses in traditional methods used to identify drugs that may harm the central nervous system.
Modeling Myelination and Therapeutic Response in Demyelinating Disorders
CNS-3D and PNS-3D organoids support authentic myelin formation and enable high-throughput measurement of myelination for therapeutic screening.

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Case Studies

Takeda Implements CNS-3D Organoids for Preclinical Neurotoxicity Assessment
CNS-3D organoids provide a human-relevant context for the detection of compound-induced neurotoxicity, supports multiplexed endpoint analysis, and reduces reliance on animal testing.

Takeda’s Validated Method for CNS Safety

Learn how CNS-3D brain organoids deliver 7.4× better clinical predictivity than animal models in this on-demand webinar with Takeda’s Investigative Toxicology team.