{"id":182193,"date":"2024-02-07T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/worlds-first-3d-printed-neural-tissue-grows-and-functions-like-a-human-brain"},"modified":"2024-02-07T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:24:17","slug":"worlds-first-3d-printed-neural-tissue-grows-and-functions-like-a-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/worlds-first-3d-printed-neural-tissue-grows-and-functions-like-a-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First 3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows And Functions Like a Human Brain"},"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\/EoFqvIj1R00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created the first functional 3D-printed brain tissue that can develop and form connections in the same way as real human brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>This remarkable accomplishment by a team at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison provides neuroscientists with a new tool for studying communication between brain cells and other parts of the human brain, potentially leading to better ways of treating diseases like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could change the way we look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cell<\/a> biology, neuroscience, and the pathogenesis of many neurological and psychiatric disorders,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-researchers-first-to-3d-print-functional-human-brain-tissue\/\">says<\/a> neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang, senior author of a new paper describing the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created the first functional 3D-printed brain tissue that can develop and form connections in the same way as real human brain tissue. This remarkable accomplishment by a team at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison provides neuroscientists with a new tool for studying communication between brain cells and other parts of the human brain, potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182193","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\/182193","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}