Scientists GROW human ‘mini-brain on the move’ in brain disease BREAKTHROUGH
These issues can create illnesses such as motor neurone disease, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Dr Lancaster said: “Obviously we’re not just trying to create something for the fun of it.
“We want to use this to model diseases and to understand how these networks are set up in the first place.”
Dr Gray Camp, a geneticist at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland, described the advance as “a big step for the field”.
He said: “It’s extremely exciting to see evidence of functional nerve tracts growing out of developing human brain tissue and innervating other tissues.”
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