Pluripotent stem cells (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pluripotent stem cells

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The researchers also used induced pluripotent stem cells to generate forebrain spheroids, which contain neurons and astrocytes. The spheroids grow to two to three millimeters in diameter.

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