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 6 months ago
How are they growing human brain blobs?
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
deHaga@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Cool. Thanks
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Adding to this, you can induce blood cells to become stem cells, so that’s often how those are created
deHaga@feddit.uk 6 months ago
🤯
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Radiolab did a great episode on it recently called “Space Balls”
rumba@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Per Live Science, the team modified a technique used to turn stem cells into neural tissue to create the brain organoids with the optic cups. After the cells developed into mini-brains, the optic cups formed 30 days later and fully matured at 50 days. The timing was on target with eye development in a human embryo, meaning the process could be used to study how eyes develop in utero.
chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw
I assume it’s not that different from growing a rat neuron blob.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 6 months 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 6 months ago
The MAGA effect.