{"id":195197,"date":"2024-08-25T17:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/cerebral-organoids-what-are-lab-grown-minibrains"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:33:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:33:45","slug":"cerebral-organoids-what-are-lab-grown-minibrains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/cerebral-organoids-what-are-lab-grown-minibrains","title":{"rendered":"Cerebral organoids: What are lab-grown \u2018minibrains\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cerebral-organoids-what-are-lab-grown-minibrains3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past decade, lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue began making news headlines, as they ushered in a new era of scientific discovery and raised a slew of ethical questions.<\/p>\n<p>These blobs \u2014 scientifically known as brain organoids, but often called \u201cminibrains\u201d in the news \u2014 serve as miniature, simplified models of full-size human brains. These organoids can potentially be useful in basic research, drug development and even computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past decade, lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue began making news headlines, as they ushered in a new era of scientific discovery and raised a slew of ethical questions. These blobs \u2014 scientifically known as brain organoids, but often called \u201cminibrains\u201d in the news \u2014 serve as miniature, simplified models of full-size human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195197","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=195197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}