Lab-Grown Brain Balls Are Starting to Look More Lifelike

Lab-Grown Brain Balls Are Starting to Look More Lifelike

When it became possible to remove a tumor from a patient and study it in a dish, the field of oncology was transformed. Sergiu Paşca, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, wants psychiatry to experience the same kind of revolution. Yet the brain presents an even greater challenge than cancer. Without the option of simply cutting …