Harvard Researchers Sustain Brain Organoids for Five Years to Study Aging

By Megan Molteni · STAT News · 2026-08-19

According to reporting from STAT News, developmental neurobiologists at Harvard have successfully maintained eraser-sized clusters of brain tissue in a laboratory setting for over half a decade. This longitudinal study allowed Irene Faravelli and Paola Arlotta to observe how thes

According to reporting from STAT News, developmental neurobiologists at Harvard have successfully maintained eraser-sized clusters of brain tissue in a laboratory setting for over half a decade. This longitudinal study allowed Irene Faravelli and Paola Arlotta to observe how thes