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Chronic lung disease remains one of the world’s biggest health challenges, yet treatments have changed little in decades. One in four people will develop a lung condition in their lifetime, and up to one in five or six will die from a lung-related illness. Current drug development is slow, imprecise, and often fails to reflect the complexity of human lungs.

SoCRATES is a pioneering programme that hopes to change this through the creation of mini lungs, known scientifically as lung organoids. These tiny, three-dimensional cell cultures mimic the structure and function of real lungs, allowing scientists to study disease in unprecedented detail.

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