{"id":118590,"date":"2021-01-16T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/meet-assembloids-mini-human-brains-with-muscles-attached"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:22:15","slug":"meet-assembloids-mini-human-brains-with-muscles-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/meet-assembloids-mini-human-brains-with-muscles-attached","title":{"rendered":"Meet Assembloids, Mini Human Brains With Muscles Attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-assembloids-mini-human-brains-with-muscles-attached2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result was a bizarre, Lego-like human tissue that replicates the basic circuits behind how we decide to move. Without external prompting, when churned together like ice cream, the three ingredients physically linked up into a fully functional circuit. The 3D mini-brain, through the information highway formed by the artificial spinal cord, was able to make the lab-grown muscle twitch on demand.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you think isolated mini-brains\u2014known formally as brain organoids\u2014floating in a jar is creepy, upgrade your nightmares. The next big thing in probing the brain is assembloids\u2014free-floating brain circuits\u2014that now combine brain tissue with an external output.<\/p>\n<p>The end goal isn\u2019t to freak people out. Rather, it\u2019s to recapitulate our nervous system, from input to output, inside the controlled environment of a Petri dish. An autonomous, living brain-spinal cord-muscle entity is an invaluable model for figuring out how our own brains direct the intricate muscle movements that allow us stay upright, walk, or type on a keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The result was a bizarre, Lego-like human tissue that replicates the basic circuits behind how we decide to move. Without external prompting, when churned together like ice cream, the three ingredients physically linked up into a fully functional circuit. The 3D mini-brain, through the information highway formed by the artificial spinal cord, was able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}