Not 'brains in a dish': Cerebral organoids flunk comparison to developing nervous system

(University of California - San Francisco) A new UC San Francisco study offers a more restrained perspective on brain organoids suggested for lab experiments, by showing that widely used organoid models fail to replicate even basic features of brain development and organization, much less the complex circuitry needed to model complex brain diseases or normal cognition.
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