Name: Body-free biology
Start: 2025-05-21T19:30:00
End: 2025-05-21T21:30:00
Location: Levels Cafe and Lounge

Life in the Lab: Growing Organs, Testing Treatments, and Replacing Animals in Research

Scientists are revolutionizing how we study the human body—without using animals. From body-on-a-chip technology that mimics organ function to lab-grown cell clusters that reveal the secrets of early development, cutting-edge research is transforming medicine and our understanding of life itself.

Join us for a night of discovery as we explore the future of science, one tiny model at a time!

Event is kindly sponsored by The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Researc…

Plug and Play Human

Liam Carr (Postdoc )

Imagine having information about how all your major organs are working in the palm of your hand. This is a body-on-chip, a plastic device containing human heart, brain, lung, kidney and liver cells. Find out how scientists are using the device to study how disease develops and mimic how a medicine moves through the body, and the potential of this technology to replace the use of animals in research and testing.

Human Development in a Dish

Lawrence Bates (Postdoc )

How do scientists study how an embryo develops into a whole organism? Most research to understand how organs and limbs develop uses mouse embryos. Enter gastruloids – made from stem cells that self-organise into a 3D ball, complex cultures which can then be modified, studied and analysed to understand events in early development, without the use of animals.

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