Miniature brain in a dish reveals an outsized secret about autism

Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 21:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists hoping to uncover the origins of autism have grown a passel of miniature proto-brains in a lab, using reprogrammed skin cells to rewind the clock to the brain's earliest days of development. From these small creations have come potentially big insights into autism, a diabolically complex...

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