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Neuroscience
Growing Neurons in a Lab Dish
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Growing neurons in a lab dish gives scientists a simpler way to study the brain. A primary culture is made by taking nervous system tissue, breaking it into single cells, and growing those cells in vitro, or outside the body in a controlled dish.
This setup makes neurons and glia, the support cel...
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Transcript
The brain is one of the most complex organs in the body, so neuroscientists often need a simpler system for experimental manipulations and observations. Cell culturing is one such system that enables easy access to living neurons. In general, culturing cells involves growing them in special solutions called culture media with...
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