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World Service,2 mins

Human brain organoids – how are they similar to our brains?

CrowdScience

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Stem cell researcher, Alysson Muotri, explains what human brain organoids are to CrowdScience's Marnie Chesterton. These little white balls of neural stem cells spontaneously grow into various types of brain cells and are about the size of a bee brain!

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