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A brain organoid with eye-like optic cups Elke Gabriel

2021 in review: When a brain blob in a dish grew a pair of ‘eyes’

15 December 2021

Incredible advances in growing living tissue in the lab took another amazing turn in August when a blob of brain cells grew eye-like structures

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