“I try to not be scary to an average person,” Gilman told Hattikudur. Despite describing imagined “organ sacks” in detail, she denied that R3 Bio was working on the concept “for now, period,” and declined to say what it was working on instead. Which would imply that the federal government is investing in a company that’s claimed to have worked on “organ sacks.” In March, it announced its existence in a buzzy Wired article, in which R3 Bio told the magazine that it was specifically working to create “organ sacks.” “So do these organ sacks have the stem of a brain?”