Mini Brains Just Got Creepier—They’re Growing Their Own Veins

Mini Brains Just Got Creepier—They’re Growing Their Own Veins

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      3. apr. 2018
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The first human brain balls—aka cortical spheroids, aka neural organoids—agglomerated into existence just a few short years ago. In the beginning, they were almost comically crude: just stem cells, chemically coerced into proto-neurons and then swirled into blobs in a salty-sweet bath. But still, they were useful for studying some of the most dramatic brain disorders, like the microcephaly caused by the Zika virus. Then they started growing up.

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