{"id":181955,"date":"2024-02-03T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/researchers-produce-the-first-3d-printed-functional-human-brain-tissue"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:45:13","slug":"researchers-produce-the-first-3d-printed-functional-human-brain-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/researchers-produce-the-first-3d-printed-functional-human-brain-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Researchers produce the first 3D-printed functional human brain tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-produce-the-first-3d-printed-functional-human-brain-tissue3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison scientists has developed the first 3D-printed brain tissue that can grow and function like typical brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be a hugely powerful model to help us understand how <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain cells<\/a> and parts of the brain communicate in humans,\u201d says Su-Chun Zhang, professor of neuroscience and neurology at UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Waisman Center. \u201cIt could change the way we look at <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/stem+cell+biology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stem cell biology<\/a>, neuroscience, and the pathogenesis of many neurological and psychiatric disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison scientists has developed the first 3D-printed brain tissue that can grow and function like typical brain tissue. It\u2019s an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease. \u201cThis could [\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-181955","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\/181955","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=181955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}