It’s a First: Indian Scientists in US Grow a ‘Mini Brain’ in a Lab

It’s as advanced as the brain of a five-week-old fetus. Isn’t that the coolest thing you’ve read all day?

It’s arguably the most important organ of your body but also a huge mystery.

We still don’t completely understand how brains develop and unfortunately, how they weaken and deteriorate. Part of the reason scientists have had such a hard time unlocking those secrets is because most of those experiments have been on animals and the deceased. Not exactly the best way to understand how our brain works.

But now scientists at the Ohio State University have succeeded in growing an almost fully formed human brain in a lab for the first time ever.