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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: The future of brain science
Description: Guest Sergiu Pasca is a physician-scientist who turns skin cells into stem cells and then into brain tissues he calls âorganoidsâ and âassembloidsâ in order to study psychiatric and neurological illness in a dish instead of in living human beings. With this knowledge, Pasca hopes to develop new treatments for conditions ranging from schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders to chronic pain, he tells host Russ Altman in this episode of Stanford Engineeringâs The Future of Everything podcast.Episode Reference Links:Sergiuâs Lab: Pasca LabSergiuâs Stanford Profile: WebsiteCenter at Stanford Sergiu Leads: Stanford Brain OrganogenesisS...