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Studying COVID-19 in a mini-brain!

Sam Baker | Conor Dillon
September 18, 2020

Neurological symptoms like headaches, confusion, memory loss and delirium have been reported in many COVID-19 patients, but how can we study what's going on in the brain at a cellular level? Researchers at Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf have been using human brain organoids, or mini-brains, grown in a lab to see how brain cells react to COVID-19.

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