Organoids required! A new path to understanding human brain development and disease.

Arlotta, Paola · Nat Methods · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Our ability to study the developing human brain has recently been dramatically advanced by the development of human 'brain organoids', three-dimensional culture systems that recapitulate selected aspects of human brain development in reductionist, yet complex, tissues in vitro. Here I discuss the promises and challenges this new model system presents.

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