Tag: Madeline Lancaster
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Scientist Madeline Lancaster grows ‘mini-brains’
Neurological biologist Madeline Lancaster develops cerebral organoids or mini-brains, which she describes as “three-dimensional neural tissues generated from human stem cells which allow us to model human brain development.” In other words, organoids can model the architecture of a human embryonic brain. According to the Financial Times who interviewed the scientist, each organoid is about…