title: Brain: A 21st Century Look at a 400 Million Year Old Organ (Wallace and Darwin)
author: Rob DeSalle
description: Patricia J. Wynne is an award winning artist who lives with her husband, artist Donald Silver, in New York City. She works at the American Museum of Natural History and teaches numerous courses when she is not illustrating books. Her books are frequently on Book of the Year Lists in Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Parade, New York Times Book Review and others.
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  RAINS
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  “ Organoids” could help solve 
  Alzheimer’s, autism and more 
  “ Organoids” could help solve 
  Alzheimer’s, autism and more
  “ Organoids” could help solve 
  Alzheimer’s, autism and more
  “ Organoids” could help solve 
  Alzheimer’s, autism and more
  FROM  
  DINOSAUR  
  TO BIRD
  An evolutionary  
  tale   PAGE 48 
  ANIMAL CSI TO 
  CATCH ABUSERS
  Advances in veterinary 
  forensic science   PAGE 56
  PLUS
  WHY ROBOTS SHOULD DISOBEY US
  PAGE 44
  GENE THERAPY TO HEAL HEARTS
  PAGE 38
  JANUARY 2017
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  NEUROSCIENCE
   26  Lab-Built  
  Brains
  Scientists copy nature’s most com­
  plex organ in the hope of solving 
  the mysteries of brain disorders, 
  from autism to Alzheimer’s. 
   By Juergen A. Knoblich
  SPACE
   32  Tangle