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rdifazio

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    Comment #28163104

    Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy to share more. - They're derived from secondary lymphoid tissue. We're trying to biobank as broadly as we can to capture sex, age, race, HLA, gen…

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    Comment #28163019

    Thanks for the heads up. We're looking into it, but in the meantime robert at parallel.bio or founders at are both good email addresses.

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    Comment #28163006

    Please do, and I appreciate the introductions! My email is robert at parallel.bio.

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    Comment #28159442

    Thank you! If you have a good recommendation, we'd love an introduction. Please let me know at robert at parallel.bio.

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    Comment #28158834

    There are some reviews on immune organoids that I posted below. This is the first human one though able to recapitulate these features at a commercial scale. We haven't gotten any …

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    Comment #28158656

    There's been a lot of research around organoids but our human platform is unique. Here are two reviews discussing organoids that have been so far for the immune system, though thes…

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    Comment #28158204

    We agree that this would be an important step. That being said, there is a paucity of models that would make suitable replacements to animal models. People are working on this issu…

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    Comment #28158112

    We feel exactly the same way. Not only is it unacceptable that over 110 million animals a year are sacrificed for research, but these models do a terrible job of translating to hum…

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    Comment #28158048

    We're in the process of launching and are working on coming out of stealth as fast as we can. It shouldn't be empty in the near future!

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    Comment #28156464

    Hey everyone! We’re Juliana and Robert, co-founders of Parallel Bio. We're improving drug discovery by replacing animal models, in the hope of making cures for humans, not mice. Th…