The brain-in-a-jar is one of science fiction’s creepier ideas. It is a safe prediction that 2016 will not see such literally disembodied people become reality. What it will see, though, is the blossoming of a technology that lets scientists grow things resembling brains—and also livers, kidneys, intestines and many other body parts—in glass vessels in laboratories.

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