{"id":137074,"date":"2022-03-18T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/human-brain-organoids-grown-in-cheap-3d-printed-bioreactor"},"modified":"2022-03-18T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T03:07:25","slug":"human-brain-organoids-grown-in-cheap-3d-printed-bioreactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/human-brain-organoids-grown-in-cheap-3d-printed-bioreactor","title":{"rendered":"Human brain organoids grown in cheap 3D-printed bioreactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-brain-organoids-grown-in-cheap-3d-printed-bioreactor3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2021<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It is now possible to grow and culture human brain tissue in a device that costs little more than a cup of coffee. With a $5 washable and reusable microchip, scientists can watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2272206-mini-brains-show-why-human-brains-grow-larger-than-those-of-other-apes\/\">self-organising brain samples, known as brain organoids<\/a>, growing in real time under a microscope.<\/p>\n<p>The device, dubbed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2120605-printed-lab-on-a-chip-costs-a-penny-and-catches-disease-early\/\">\u201cmicrofluidic bioreactor\u201d<\/a>, is a 4-by-6-centimetre chip that includes small wells in which the brain organoids grow. Each is filled with nutrient-rich fluid that is pumped in and out automatically, like the fluids that flush through the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>Using this system, Ikram Khan at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now reported the growth of a brain organoid over seven days. This demonstrates that the brain cells can thrive inside the chip, says Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2021 It is now possible to grow and culture human brain tissue in a device that costs little more than a cup of coffee. With a $5 washable and reusable microchip, scientists can watch self-organising brain samples, known as brain organoids, growing in real time under a microscope. The device, dubbed a \u201cmicrofluidic bioreactor\u201d, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137074","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=137074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}