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‘Mini-brains on the move’ that can contract muscle

Published on 19 March, 2019

Researchers in Madeline Lancaster’s group have developed a method of growing cerebral organoids, or mini-brains, that allows longer-term development and showed that these mini-brains can stimulate muscle contraction. More…