{"id":182601,"date":"2024-02-13T05:24:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-create-the-first-functional-3d-printed-mini-brains"},"modified":"2024-02-13T05:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:24:48","slug":"scientists-create-the-first-functional-3d-printed-mini-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-create-the-first-functional-3d-printed-mini-brains","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create the first \u201cfunctional\u201d 3D-printed mini brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-the-first-functional-3d-printed-mini-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison (UWM) say they have created the first 3D-printed brain organoids that function like natural brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe neurons communicate, send signals, interact with each other through neurotransmitters, and even form proper networks with support cells that were added to the printed tissue,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-researchers-first-to-3d-print-functional-human-brain-tissue\/\">said<\/a> senior author Su-Chun Zhang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> In the right conditions, stem cells will self-assemble into tiny, three-dimensional tissues that mimic features of the human brain. These \u201cbrain organoids\u201d can be used to test drugs, study diseases, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison (UWM) say they have created the first 3D-printed brain organoids that function like natural brain tissue. \u201cThe neurons communicate, send signals, interact with each other through neurotransmitters, and even form proper networks with support cells that were added to the printed tissue,\u201d said senior author Su-Chun Zhang. The challenge: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182601","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\/182601","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}