{"id":162520,"date":"2023-04-20T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/mini-brains-grown-in-the-lab-sprout-primitive-eyes"},"modified":"2023-04-20T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:23:49","slug":"mini-brains-grown-in-the-lab-sprout-primitive-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/mini-brains-grown-in-the-lab-sprout-primitive-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Mini brains grown in the lab sprout primitive \u201ceyes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mini-brains-grown-in-the-lab-sprout-primitive-eyes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organoids aren\u2019t nearly as complex as their full-sized counterparts, but they\u2019re useful for research \u2014 scientists can study organ development, monitor disease progression, and even test new treatments on them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s new:<\/strong> When human embryos are about five weeks old, they develop structures called \u201coptic cups\u201d that will eventually become retinas.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have grown optic cups in the lab before, and they\u2019ve also grown mini brains. Now, researchers at University Hospital D\u00fcsseldorf have grown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/brain-organoids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brain organoids<\/a> <em>with<\/em> optic cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organoids aren\u2019t nearly as complex as their full-sized counterparts, but they\u2019re useful for research \u2014 scientists can study organ development, monitor disease progression, and even test new treatments on them. What\u2019s new: When human embryos are about five weeks old, they develop structures called \u201coptic cups\u201d that will eventually become retinas. Researchers have grown optic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162520","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\/162520","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}