Lab-grown human mini-brains kept alive for a year by slicing them up

By Clare Wilson

Mini-brain organoids showing cortex-like structures

Andras Lakatos/University of Cambridge

Miniature quality brain-like structures person been grown successful a crockery for much than a year, overmuch longer than has been achieved previously. The feat was accomplished by increasing encephalon cells into a ball, past slicing it up truthful that oxygen and nutrients tin scope each the cells, portion allowing the operation to clasp its interior insubstantial architecture.

The modular mode to survey tissues kept live successful the laboratory is to turn them arsenic a azygous furniture of cells successful a dish. Then it was recovered that …

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