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Why a Startup Just Gave Away Four Million Living Human Neurons for Free: Crownlands, Olfactory Cells, CZ CELLxGENE, and the Open Data Land Grab Reshaping Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery and AI Biology
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Why a Startup Just Gave Away Four Million Living Human Neurons for Free: Crownlands, Olfactory Cells, CZ CELLxGENE, and the Open Data Land Grab Reshaping Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery and AI Biology

A startup just gave away 4 million living human brain cells. Free. No login. No strings. On day one of their public launch. Why would any VC-backed company do that?

The short answer: you cannot biopsy a living human brain. Neuroscience has been stuck with postmortem tissue and mouse models for decades. Every major brain atlas is basically forensic pathol…

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