First almost fully-formed human brain grown in lab, researchers
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Research team say tiny brain could be used to test drugs and study diseases, but scientific peers urge caution as data on breakthrough kept under wraps
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The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists' quest to decode it – and read people's minds
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From bench to newspaper - the Node
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Miniature Human Brains: A First in Lab-Grown Organs - Big Think
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Virtual reality maps real-life 'Hobbit' brain
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response to R. Scott Bakker on transcendental phenomenology and BBT – Footnotes2Plato
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Helen Thomson
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