{"id":161101,"date":"2023-03-27T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-were-reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-in-the-lab-sergiu-p-pasca-ted"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:23:06","slug":"how-were-reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-in-the-lab-sergiu-p-pasca-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-were-reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-in-the-lab-sergiu-p-pasca-ted","title":{"rendered":"How We\u2019re Reverse Engineering the Human Brain in the Lab | Sergiu P. Pasca | TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ABmRCdnVq3E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientist Sergiu P. Pasca has made it his life\u2019s work to understand how the human brain builds itself \u2014 and what makes it susceptible to disease. In a mind-blowing talk laden with breakthrough science, he shows how his team figured out how to grow \u201corganoids\u201d and what they call brain \u201cassembloids\u201d \u2014 self-organizing clumps of neural tissue derived from stem cells that have shown the ability to form circuits \u2014 and explains how these miniature parts of the nervous system are bringing us closer to demystifying the brain.<\/p>\n<p>If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: <a href=\"http:\/\/ted.com\/membership\">http:\/\/ted.com\/membership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow TED!<br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TEDTalks\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/TEDTalks<\/a>.<br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ted\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ted<\/a>.<br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/TED\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/TED<\/a><br \/> LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/ted-conferences\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/ted-conferences<\/a>.<br \/> TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tedtoks\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tedtoks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The TED Talks channel features talks, performances and original series from the world\u2019s leading thinkers and doers. Subscribe to our channel for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design \u2014 plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/TED.com\">http:\/\/TED.com<\/a> to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.ted.com\/sergiuppasca\">https:\/\/go.ted.com\/sergiuppasca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientist Sergiu P. Pasca has made it his life\u2019s work to understand how the human brain builds itself \u2014 and what makes it susceptible to disease. In a mind-blowing talk laden with breakthrough science, he shows how his team figured out how to grow \u201corganoids\u201d and what they call brain \u201cassembloids\u201d \u2014 self-organizing clumps of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161101","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=161101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}