Hopkins Scientists Develop Mini-Brains in Promising Research

February 15, 2016

(The Baltimore Sun) – Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are growing tiny replicas of the human brain to help the study of neurological diseases in a trend many hope could lead to better treatments and even cures for some of the most debilitating illnesses. The Hopkins scientists join a handful of other medical researchers around the country who are culturing so-called “mini-brains” in the lab.