{"id":154142,"date":"2023-01-01T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-grew-stem-cell-mini-brains-and-then-the-brains-sort-of-developed-eyes"},"modified":"2023-01-01T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T02:23:19","slug":"scientists-grew-stem-cell-mini-brains-and-then-the-brains-sort-of-developed-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-grew-stem-cell-mini-brains-and-then-the-brains-sort-of-developed-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grew Stem Cell \u2018Mini Brains\u2019 And Then The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grew-stem-cell-mini-brains-and-then-the-brains-sort-of-developed-eyes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mini brains grown in a lab from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cells<\/a> spontaneously developed rudimentary eye structures, scientists reported in a fascinating 2021 paper.<\/p>\n<p>On tiny, human-derived brain organoids grown in dishes, two bilaterally symmetrical optic cups were seen to grow, mirroring the development of eye structures in human embryos. This incredible result could help us to better understand the process of eye differentiation and development, as well as eye diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work highlights the remarkable ability of brain organoids to generate primitive sensory structures that are light sensitive and harbor cell types similar to those found in the body,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medizin.hhu.de\/en\/news-detail-information\/human-brain-organoids-assemble-functionally-integrated-bilateral-optic-vesicles-1\">said neuroscientist Jay Gopalakrishnan<\/a> of University Hospital Du\u0308sseldorf in Germany in a 2021 statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini brains grown in a lab from stem cells spontaneously developed rudimentary eye structures, scientists reported in a fascinating 2021 paper. On tiny, human-derived brain organoids grown in dishes, two bilaterally symmetrical optic cups were seen to grow, mirroring the development of eye structures in human embryos. This incredible result could help us to better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154142","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\/154142","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}