The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here
The vibe, however, is pure “we checked with six ethicists, and they said the bucket is fine.”
Bexorg has found a way to make drug testing sound like a deleted scene from RoboCop: remove a dead person’s brain, hook it to a machine, and see what experimental drugs do.
Bexorg, a New Haven biotech startup, is using donated postmortem human brains to test experimental drugs. Its BrainEx system perfuses th…
