{"id":119695,"date":"2021-02-17T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/scientists-create-neanderthal-mini-brains-using-crispr-gene-editing"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:24:12","slug":"scientists-create-neanderthal-mini-brains-using-crispr-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/scientists-create-neanderthal-mini-brains-using-crispr-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create Neanderthal \u2018mini-brains\u2019 using CRISPR gene-editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-neanderthal-mini-brains-using-crispr-gene-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the brain tissue of modern humans are typically smooth and spherical, the study, which was published in Science on Feb 11, found that the tissue created with the ancient genes were smaller and had rough, complex surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question here is what makes us human,\u201d Muotri <a data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"User Interaction Click\" data-evt-val='{\"Click Source Type\": \"in-page link\", \"Click Source Name\": \"told CNN\", \"Click Source Layout Element\": null, \"Click Source Feed Name\": null, \"Click Source List ID\": null, \"Click Target URL\": \"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/11\/americas\/brain-organoids-neanderthal-study-scn\/index.html\", \"Click Target Title\": null, \"Click Target ID\": null, \"Click Target Story Position\": null, \"control_fields\": {\"extra_keys\": [\"Click Source Vertical Position %\", \"Click Source Vertical Position Pixels\"], \"MP_event_type\": \"Navigation\"}}' href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/11\/americas\/brain-organoids-neanderthal-study-scn\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told CNN<\/a>. \u201cWhy are our brains so different from other species including our own extinct relatives?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the brain tissue of modern humans are typically smooth and spherical, the study, which was published in Science on Feb 11, found that the tissue created with the ancient genes were smaller and had rough, complex surfaces. \u201cThe question here is what makes us human,\u201d Muotri told CNN. \u201cWhy are our brains so different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119695","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}