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What It's Like to Grow a 'Mini-Brain' From Your Own Cells
A multidisciplinary project gives a science writer a new brain.
Scientists created mini brains out of cells donated by writer Philip Ball. Dementia researchers will use them to study brain development. (Credit: Chris Lovejoy/UCL)
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