{"id":148320,"date":"2022-10-16T23:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-spliced-human-brain-tissue-into-the-brains-of-baby-rats"},"modified":"2022-10-16T23:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:24:29","slug":"scientists-spliced-human-brain-tissue-into-the-brains-of-baby-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-spliced-human-brain-tissue-into-the-brains-of-baby-rats","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Spliced Human Brain Tissue Into The Brains of Baby Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-spliced-human-brain-tissue-into-the-brains-of-baby-rats3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-organizing lumps of human brain tissue grown in the laboratory have been successfully transplanted into the nervous systems of newborn rats in a step towards finding new ways to treat neuropsychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D organoids, developed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cells<\/a> to resemble a simplified model of the human cortex, connected and integrated with the surrounding tissue in each rat\u2019s cortex to form a functional part of the rodent\u2019s own brain, displaying activity related to sensory perception.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to a team of researchers led by neuroscientist Sergiu Pa\u0219ca of Stanford University, overcomes the limitations of dish-grown organoids, and gives us a new platform for modeling human brain development and disease in a living system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-organizing lumps of human brain tissue grown in the laboratory have been successfully transplanted into the nervous systems of newborn rats in a step towards finding new ways to treat neuropsychiatric disorders. The 3D organoids, developed from stem cells to resemble a simplified model of the human cortex, connected and integrated with the surrounding tissue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148320","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\/148320","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}