What ‘Mini Brains’ Are Teaching About Covid-19

They provide a new way to study the virus that causes the disease

Miniature lab-grown brains in a dish are revealing insights about Covid-19. As Emily Mullin reports in OneZero, these “mini brains,” also known as organoids, are small structures made from stem cells that emit electrical activity as a real brain would. Researchers are using these structures to better understand the virus that causes Covid-19. So far, they are reporting that the virus appears to have the potential to infect human brain cells…