Brain Reconstruction: The Next Biomedical Breakthrough, or a Biological Impossibility?
How close are we to true brain reconstruction? Professor Jack Price details the latest advances in this field of neuroscience, as well as covering the conceptual and regulatory obstacles that researchers face.
Jack Price is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Head of the Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
(from gresham.ac.uk)
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