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This was confusing to cultured folk at first, but they got used to it.

As written, the recipe needs nothing more than a generous swipe of cultured butter and a plate of soft scrambled eggs, maybe a rasher of bacon if you’re feeling traditional.

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Over the course of two years, cultured human nerve cells multiplied and organized themselves into a functioning organoid capable of generating electrical activity.

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For example, Japan’s invention of cultured pearls led to the decline of the UAE’s natural-pearl trading industry in the early 1900s, he notes.

Each little sphere is essentially a tiny, lab-grown mini-brain, made out of living stem cells which have been cultured to become clusters of neurons and supporting cells - these are the “organoids”.

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