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Researchers have demonstrated that mini-brains grown in a dish can perform computation.

Fabian Theis · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026

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“And people have shown that they can get those sort of mini brains in a dish to compute. Similarly, people can take heart cells, grow them into little heart organoids, and we have a, a bunch of local collaborations with fantastic partners that actually start beating.”
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