{"id":184409,"date":"2024-03-08T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/exploring-the-past-present-and-future-of-brain-organoids"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:13:33","slug":"exploring-the-past-present-and-future-of-brain-organoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/exploring-the-past-present-and-future-of-brain-organoids","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Brain Organoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-the-past-present-and-future-of-brain-organoids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOVE: After years of research, brain organoids now come close to mimicking endogenous brain cells. \u00a9 iStock, StockSnap.<\/p>\n<p>As a developmental neurobiologist at Harvard University, <a href=\"https:\/\/hscrb.harvard.edu\/labs\/arlotta-lab\" target=\"_blank\">Paola Arlotta<\/a> spends most of her time thinking about how the brain develops, how it functions, and what goes wrong in the context of neurological disease. Using human brain organoids as a model for brain development and disease research has been a game changer, providing Arlotta a novel view into brain pathologies that form in utero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOVE: After years of research, brain organoids now come close to mimicking endogenous brain cells. \u00a9 iStock, StockSnap. As a developmental neurobiologist at Harvard University, Paola Arlotta spends most of her time thinking about how the brain develops, how it functions, and what goes wrong in the context of neurological disease. Using human brain organoids [\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-184409","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\/184409","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=184409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}