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Remember the film where a growling chimpanzee sinks its teeth into one of the activists trying to save it, marking them out as patient zero in a zombie epidemic?

28 Days Later is just one of many sci-fi narratives using animal testing as a plot point, but the UK government hopes these stories will soon be even more far-fetched than before.

Today, they committed to phasing out animal testing faster, saying effective alternatives are now available, like human tissue grown on a microchip, or even 3D bioprinted tissues replicating things like skin or liver.

Martin Knight, who leads a team looking into ‘organs on chips’ at Queen Mary University

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