But when I learned that some of them had spontaneously developed optic vesicles—that is, precursors to eyes—I realized that the closer these experiments get to a real brain, the closer we get ...
My husband and I will grow more wrinkled and stooped in tandem. That seems fair enough. A growing field of research, however, suggests that as we enter into this new midlife phase, my brain will begin ...
Such brain “organoids,” as they’re called, have always raised ethical questions. But when I learned that some of them had spontaneously developed optic vesicles—that is, precursors to eyes—I realized ...