{"id":148200,"date":"2022-10-14T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ"},"modified":"2022-10-14T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T02:23:50","slug":"what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ","title":{"rendered":"What lab-grown \u2018mini-brains\u2019 are revealing about this mysterious organ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blobs of human brain cells cultivated in the lab, known as brain organoids or \u201cmini-brains\u201d, are transforming our understanding of neural development and disease. Now, researchers are working to make them more like the real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blobs of human brain cells cultivated in the lab, known as brain organoids or \u201cmini-brains\u201d, are transforming our understanding of neural development and disease. Now, researchers are working to make them more like the real thing.<\/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-148200","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\/148200","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=148200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}