• Question: What do the mini brains in your lab look like?

    Asked by TheaB to Emma W on 1 Apr 2025.
    • Photo: Emma Weir

      Emma Weir answered on 1 Apr 2025: last edited 1 Apr 2025 15:55

      Because they’re quite simple models of the brain, they are very small and by eye look a bit like cous cous.
      But the bigger ones start to get folds and wrinkles a bit like your brain.

      We can use microscopes to look closer at all the different cells inside them and how they interact, and on that scale they look a lot more like brain tissue!

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