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Japanese scientists have created miniature human brain circuits by joining lab-grown thalamus and cortex models from stem cells. This breakthrough offers a new platform for studying brain development ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...