Cerebral Organoid (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Cerebral Organoid

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Studying lab-grown cerebral organoids (one derived from chimpanzee cells, shown) has helped scientists discover genes active only in developing human brains.

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Vincent Meng and Andrew Field

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