{"id":148045,"date":"2022-10-12T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-grow-human-brain-cells-in-rats-to-study-diseases"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:25:41","slug":"scientists-grow-human-brain-cells-in-rats-to-study-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-grow-human-brain-cells-in-rats-to-study-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow human brain cells in rats to study diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-human-brain-cells-in-rats-to-study-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of an effort to better study human brain development and diseases affecting this most complex of organs, which makes us who we are but has long been shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are likely uniquely human\u201d but \u201cthe human brain certainly has not been very accessible,\u201d said said Dr. Sergiu Pasca, senior author of a study describing the work, published Wednesday in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections. It\u2019s part of an effort to better study human brain development and diseases affecting this most complex of organs, which makes us who we are but has long been shrouded in mystery. \u201cMany disorders such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148045","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=148045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}