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Five-year brain organoids mirror human development

Published 20 August 2026

In a significant advance for neuroscience, researchers have successfully maintained human brain organoids in a laboratory for more than five years, demonstrating that these miniature models of brain tissue can mimic key stages of human development and retain a cellular memory of their own growth.

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