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Success in Generating Brain Tissue From Stem Cells

18th November 2008 by Esmart No Comments

Japanese researchers at the Riken Institute have created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells. In a world first, stem cells taken from human embryos were used to form tissues of the cerebral cortex, the supreme control center of the brain. A significant difference on previous studies was the behaviour of the tissues to self-organise […]