Hepaticus Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Unlike for other tissues and organs in the body, no good cell culture model of the liver exists. This difficulty has hampered the discovery of therapeutics for a wide variety of liver diseases-hepatitis, cancer, and cirrhosis, for example-but Hepaticus Inc. is planning to change this: the firm has devised a way to model human liver cell functionality using immunocompetent rats.