This is a scientific achievement, and an ethical one: Scientists have used skin cells to build a rudimentary human brain. These were induced pluripotent stem cells. From the story in The Guardian:
An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State University. The team behind the feat hope the brain could transform our understanding of neurological disease. Though not conscious the miniature brain, which resembles that of a five-wee...
Published on August 21, 2015 10:26