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. 2018 Apr;556(7702):429-432.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04813-x.

The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue

Nita A Farahany, Henry T Greely, Steven Hyman, Christof Koch, Christine Grady, Sergiu P Pașca, Nenad Sestan, Paola Arlotta, James L Bernat, Jonathan Ting, Jeantine E Lunshof, Eswar P R Iyer, Insoo Hyun, Beatrice H Capestany, George M Church, Hao Huang, Hongjun Song

The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue

Nita A Farahany et al. Nature. 2018 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: Diseases; Neuroscience.

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Simplified 3D brain organoids can be grown in a dish using human stem cells as the starting material.
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A researcher dissects slices of human brain tissue.
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A 3D human-brain assembloid derived from stem cells.
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