{"id":184289,"date":"2024-03-03T01:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T07:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/in-a-first-organoid-model-resembles-all-three-sections-of-embryonic-brain-and-spinal-cord"},"modified":"2024-03-03T01:43:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T07:43:44","slug":"in-a-first-organoid-model-resembles-all-three-sections-of-embryonic-brain-and-spinal-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/in-a-first-organoid-model-resembles-all-three-sections-of-embryonic-brain-and-spinal-cord","title":{"rendered":"In a First, Organoid Model Resembles All Three Sections of Embryonic Brain and Spinal Cord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-organoid-model-resembles-all-three-sections-of-embryonic-brain-and-spinal-cord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first organized stem cell culture model that resembles all three sections of the embryonic brain and spinal cord, and produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system, has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of Michigan(U-M), the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModels like this will open doors for fundamental research to understand early development of the human central nervous system and how it could go wrong in different disorders,\u201d said Jianping Fu, PhD, professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>This work is published in <em>Nature<\/em> in the paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07204-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Patterned Human Neural Tube Model Using Microfluidic Gradients.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first organized stem cell culture model that resembles all three sections of the embryonic brain and spinal cord, and produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system, has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of Michigan(U-M), the Weizmann Institute of Science, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184289","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=184289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}