Lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ may explain why we outlived Neanderthals | NYGazet

Clumps of brain tissue have been grown — some with Neanderthal genes and other with modern human ones — providing clues about why our evolutionary cousins disappeared

Lead has long been known to harm the brain by disrupting how its cells form and communicate. However, when the two sets of organoids were exposed to small doses of the metal, the Neanderthal mini-brains fared worse than the modern human ones. The dif... [2458 chars]