In the past few years, it has become possible to encourage stem cells – versatile cells similar to those found in embryos – to grow into spherical masses of brain tissue up to three millimetres wide, known as brain organoids.
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deHaga@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
How are they growing human brain blobs?
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
deHaga@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Cool. Thanks
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Adding to this, you can induce blood cells to become stem cells, so that’s often how those are created
deHaga@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
🤯
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Radiolab did a great episode on it recently called “Space Balls”
chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw
I assume it’s not that different from growing a rat neuron blob.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 12 hours ago
Every time certain segments of society speak it causes small potions of the audience’s brains to drip out of their ears. These bits are scraped up off the floor and, after mixing well with some tapioca, come to plausibly resemble the mental functions of the person last heard speaking.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The MAGA effect.