{"id":18196,"date":"2015-10-07T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=18196"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:05:15","slug":"human-mini-brains-may-solve-cancer-autism-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/human-mini-brains-may-solve-cancer-autism-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Human mini-brains may solve cancer, autism, Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><span style=\"color: #999999\">[From CNN]<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Human \u2018mini brains\u2019 grown in labs may help solve cancer, autism, Alzheimer\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mini_brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"metadata__byline\"><strong>Story highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"el__storyhighlights__list\">\n<li class=\"el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal\">Ohio State biomedical research team grows nearly complete human \u2018mini brain\u2019<\/li>\n<li class=\"el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal\">Brain organoids can be used to learn more about diseases like cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s<\/li>\n<li class=\"el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal\">Brain organoids could yield autism breakthrough within 10 years, researcher says<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"metadata__byline__author\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/thom-patterson-profile\">Thom Patterson<\/a><\/span> <span id=\"js-pagetop_video_source\" class=\"video__source top_source\">| Video Source: CNN<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/06\/health\/pioneers-brain-organoids\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From CNN] Human \u2018mini brains\u2019 grown in labs may help solve cancer, autism, Alzheimer\u2019s Story highlights Ohio State biomedical research team grows nearly complete human \u2018mini brain\u2019 Brain organoids can be used to learn more about diseases like cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s Brain organoids could yield autism breakthrough within 10 years, researcher says By Thom [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,1902,1495,269,47],"tags":[2211,2210,1218,2208,1400,2209,2213,2212],"class_list":["post-18196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-bioengineering","category-health","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience","tag-alzheimers","tag-autism","tag-brain","tag-brain-research","tag-cancer","tag-mini-brains","tag-ohio-state-university","tag-rudolf-tanzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196","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\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45634,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions\/45634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}