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    ‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness

    ‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness

    And then the big insight, which came from Yoshiki Sasai in Japan and Madeline Lancaster, was to take these neurons that were beginning to differentiate โ€” cells relatively early in development โ€” and put them in a drop of what's called Matrigel โ€” a gel that can be either a liquid or a solid depending on the temperature.