Scientists Have Grown Tiny Brains to Cure a Deadly Neurological Disease

The organoids grew for 240 days.

The day in which doctors can grow 'mini brains' from your skin cells to test which drug suits you best is edging closer.

This could help researchers understand what happens in the earliest stages of the disease, long before symptoms appear, and help them test for new drugs and treatments.Scientists employed stem cells taken from people suffering from ALS/FTD to grow the mini-brains for 240 days — and what's more, the team has grown them for 340 days in an unpublished work.

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