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Home > LMB In The News > ‘Mini-brains’: understanding brain growth and disease

‘Mini-brains’: understanding brain growth and disease

Published on 30 April, 2018

Philip Ball, science writer at The Guardian, has had a ‘mini-brain’ grown from a sample of skin from his arm. He talks to the LMB’s Madeline Lancaster, and others, to find out how scientists are using such organoids to understand brain growth and disease. More…

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