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Keira Jenkins

Synthetic brain helps identify COVID-19 therapies

Dr Mohammed Shaker has led research to help people with Down syndrome battle COVID-19. (Supplied by University of Queensland/AAP PHOTOS)

A synthetic brain has helped to reveal why people born with Down syndrome are more vulnerable to COVID-19. 

Researchers from the University of Queensland developed the synthetic organoid, a mini organ, grown from human stem cells, used to study disease. 

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