Brain tissue from a petri dish
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity, it is extremely difficult to do scientific experiments on it -- ones that could help us to understand neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, for example. Scientists have now succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3-D, brain-like cultures.