{"id":16536,"date":"2015-08-20T19:01:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/scientists-successfully-grow-human-brain-equivalent-to-5-week-old-foetus-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:58","slug":"scientists-successfully-grow-human-brain-equivalent-to-5-week-old-foetus-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/scientists-successfully-grow-human-brain-equivalent-to-5-week-old-foetus-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully grow human brain equivalent to 5-week-old foetus in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-grow-human-brain-equivalent-to-5-week-old-foetus-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing brain tissue in a dish <a href=\"\/scientists-create-worlds-first-functional-3d-brain-model\">has been done before<\/a>, but bold new research announced this week shows that scientists\u2019 ability to create human brains in laboratory settings has come a long way quickly. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Ohio State University in the US claim to have developed the most complete laboratory-grown human brain ever, creating a model with the brain maturity of a 5-week-old foetus. The brain, which is approximately the size of a pencil eraser, contains 99 percent of the genes that would be present in a natural human foetal brain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt not only looks like the developing brain, its diverse cell types express nearly all genes like a brain,\u201d Rene Anand, professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Ohio State and lead researcher on the brain model, said <a href=\"https:\/\/news.osu.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/18\/human-brain-model\/\">in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-successfully-grow-human-brain-equivalent-to-5-week-old-foetus-in-the-lab?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=InArticleReadMore\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing brain tissue in a dish has been done before, but bold new research announced this week shows that scientists\u2019 ability to create human brains in laboratory settings has come a long way quickly. Researchers at the Ohio State University in the US claim to have developed the most complete laboratory-grown human brain ever, creating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69688,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions\/69688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}