With his knack for knowing what stem cells want, Yoshiki Sasai has grown an eye and parts of a brain in a dish.
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Cyranoski, D. Tissue engineering: The brainmaker. Nature 488, 444–446 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488444a
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