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Human foetal brain self-organises into long-term expanding organoids

Zhu A. Z. Zheng1,2,3 Wei Wang4 Fu M. Yang4 Wei Q. Liu5* Guo S. Han4*
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1 Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2 Musculoskeletal Organoid Research Center, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
3 School of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
4 Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China
5 Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Shanghai Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Submitted: 21 October 2024 | Revised: 27 October 2024 | Accepted: 29 October 2024 | Published: 28 December 2024
Copyright © 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 License.
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The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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