Baby brain bank

November 9, 2007

Unlocking one of many nondescript doors in a long hallway at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research, neuroscientist MiloÅ¡ JudaÅ¡ switches on the lights and steps aside. “Here it is,” he says. The cavernous room is filled with row after row of floor-to-ceiling shelves, nearly all of them crammed with glass jars or plastic buckets. JudaÅ¡ points to one jar, where a black spot mars a bone-white brain not much larger than a plum. “Lesion,” he says. “Typical in premature birth, but those babies tend to survive now.” (The Scientist)