Alysson Muotri, professor in the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego School of Medicine, holds brain organoids growing in a lab dish.
UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH SCIENCES
Alysson Muotri, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego. His lab grows and studies so-called organoids to understand how the human brain functions.
Scientists say pea-size organoids of human brain tissue may offer a way to study the biological beginnings of a wide range of brain conditions, including autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
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