Human Brains Are Hard to Study. He Grows Useful Substitutes.

The mission statement on the homepage of the Stanford University laboratory of Sergiu Paşca is at once simple and spectacularly ambitious. His group “seeks to understand the rules that govern the molecular and cellular steps underlying the assembly of the human nervous system and the molecular mechanisms that lead to neurological and psychiatric disease.” Paşca’s chosen route to this goal uses an…

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