Alysson Muotri: A Brain Begins – in a Dish

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Jun 3, 202136:27Science & Medicine

By coaxing skin cells to become brain cells in a dish, Alysson Muotri hopes to learn how early brain development can go wrong in conditions like autism or epilepsy – and how our brains differ from those of our cous...

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