After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week-saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey organ sacks" as an alternative to animal testing. In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three investors: billionaire Tim Draper, the Singapore-based fund Immortal...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones Afteroperatingin secrecy for years, R3 Bio, a California-based startup, suddenly revealed last week that it had raised money to createnonsentientmonkey organ sacks"...