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Historical scientific success at CeMM’s sister Institute IMBA

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IMBA/ Madeline A. Lancaster

CeMM congratulates Jürgen Knoblich and his team at CeMM’s companion institute IMBA for a truly extraordinary scientific success. The team managed to develop complex human brain tissue in a three-dimensional culture system. The method described in the current issue of NATURE allows pluripotent stem cells to develop into cerebral organoids – or "mini brains" – that consist of several discrete brain regions. This achievement contributes to establish Vienna as a world-known hot spot for biomedical sciences and it is an eloquent display of the scientific prowess of the life science institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences while providing an additional validation of the Academy’s strategy on life sciences. (http://www.imba.oeaw.ac.at/news-media/news/news/brains-on-demand/)