One of the most spectacular breakthroughs has taken place at Edinburgh’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine, where scientists have created brain tissues from patients suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar depression and other mental illness. From a scrap of skin taken from a patient, they can make neurons genetically identical to those in that person’s brain. These brain cells, grown in the laboratory, can then be studied to reveal the neurological secrets of their condition. A patient’s neurons can tell a great deal about the psychological conditions that affect them.
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