Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

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MIT Technology Review covers a secretive startup R3 Bio that pitched creating brainless human clones as backup bodies, alongside their public work on nonsentient monkey organ sacks. Scientists successfully kept a human uterus alive outside the body for the first time using a device called Mother.

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✓R3 Bio secretly pitched creating brainless human clones as backup bodies while publicly working on nonsentient monkey organ sacks for animal testing alternatives.
✓Scientists kept a human uterus alive outside the body for the first time using a device called Mother that could lead to external fetal development.
✓Mistral raised $830M for European AI data centers while Eli Lilly secured a $2.75B collaboration with Insilico Medicine for AI drug development.

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