{"id":193800,"date":"2024-07-31T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/finding-that-connection-neurons-connecting-to-one-another-in-a-petri-dish-growth-cones"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:27:52","slug":"finding-that-connection-neurons-connecting-to-one-another-in-a-petri-dish-growth-cones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/finding-that-connection-neurons-connecting-to-one-another-in-a-petri-dish-growth-cones","title":{"rendered":"FINDING THAT CONNECTION\u00a9 \u2014 neurons connecting to one another in a Petri dish \u2014 growth cones"},"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\/193800?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FINDING THAT CONNECTION \u00a9<br \/> This is my laboratory work, please see copyright details at bottom.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re watching two neurons that I saw under the microscope sensing one another and connecting.<\/p>\n<p>There are 86 billion neurons in the brain \u2014 how do they know how to connect to other neurons or body parts when our bodies are developing?<\/p>\n<p>They use these webbed hand-like structures that you can see in this video. The finger like projections actively sense the environment around it.<\/p>\n<p>When we are developing in utero, you\u2019ll find these \u201cgrowth cones,\u201d at the tip of every growing neuron, actively searching their way between cells, trying to find the right spot to connect to. When they make their connection, they become resorbed and disappear.<\/p>\n<p>I know \u2014 it\u2019s heartbreaking that the video ends right when we get to the exciting part, but see the black wavering line in the bottom right? That\u2019s what they look like after they\u2019ve connected together in a Petri dish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/finding-that-connection-neurons-connecting-to-one-another-in-a-petri-dish-growth-cones\">Continue reading \u201cFINDING THAT CONNECTION\u00a9 \u2014 neurons connecting to one another in a Petri dish \u2014 growth cones\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINDING THAT CONNECTION \u00a9 This is my laboratory work, please see copyright details at bottom. You\u2019re watching two neurons that I saw under the microscope sensing one another and connecting. There are 86 billion neurons in the brain \u2014 how do they know how to connect to other neurons or body parts when our bodies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193800","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=193800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}