A lab is growing neural-network ''brain balls'' in a petri dish, from skin stem cells, helping us to understand the structure of neural network architecture.
Possible future applications?
Bio-computers, augmented human intelligence, brain transplant? Human cloning?
https://www.wired.com/2015/05/brain-balls-grown-skin-cells-spark-electricity/
Gross! I keep my brain balls to myself not giving them to no quack scientist!