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The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a program Thursday to advance brain-repair research and develop ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, on Thursday unveiled the Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT) ...

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Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...