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H. Isaac Chen

Neurosurgeon and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine whose laboratory transplants human brain organoids into rodents.

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Human organoids filled more than 90 percent of the cortex in mice bred without one

A Stanford team emptied the mouse neocortex genetically and grew human cortical organoids into the gap, where the grafts took in 25 of 29 animals, expanded nearly fivefold over three months and wired into the host nervous system.

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