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Brain organoids help neuroscientists understand brain development, but aren't perfect matches for real brains

  • Written by Madeline Andrews, Postdoctoral Scholar of Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Just a few millimeters across, organoids are clumps of cells that resemble the brain. Madeline Andrews, Arnold Kriegstein's lab, UCSF, CC BY-ND

What was going on with our brain organoids?

Asneuroscientists, we use these three-dimensional clusters of cells grown in petri dishes to learn more about how the human brain works. Researchers culture...

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