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Growing Human Brains in Space

Health and Medicine (Video) by UCTV

May 1, 202600:20:03Science & Medicine

Brain aging and neurological disease are hard to study because living human brain tissue is difficult to access. Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., UC San Diego, explains how brain organoids sent to space can model accelerated aging...

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Growing Human Brains in Space is an episode from Health and Medicine (Video) by UCTV. Brain aging and neurological disease are hard to study because living human brain tissue is difficult to access. Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., UC San Diego, expl...

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