{"id":195215,"date":"2024-08-25T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/researchers-develop-first-in-kind-protocol-for-creating-wired-miniature-brains"},"modified":"2024-08-25T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:30:54","slug":"researchers-develop-first-in-kind-protocol-for-creating-wired-miniature-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/researchers-develop-first-in-kind-protocol-for-creating-wired-miniature-brains","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop first-in-kind protocol for creating \u2018wired miniature brains\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-first-in-kind-protocol-for-creating-wired-miniature-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers worldwide can now create highly realistic brain cortical organoids \u2014 essentially miniature artificial brains with functioning neural networks \u2014 thanks to a proprietary protocol released this month by researchers at the University of California San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique, published in Nature Protocols (\u201cGeneration of \u2018semi-guided\u2019 cortical organoids with complex neural oscillations\u201d), paves the way for scientists to perform more advanced research regarding autism, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders in which the brain\u2019s structure is usually typical, but electrical activity is altered. That\u2019s according to Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., corresponding author and director of the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research Center. The SSCI is directed by Dr. Catriona Jamieson, a leading physician-scientist in cancer stem cell biology whose research explores the fundamental question of how space alters cancer progression.<\/p>\n<p>The newly detailed method allows for the creation of tiny replicas of the human brain so realistic that they rival \u201cthe complexity of the fetal brain\u2019s neural network,\u201d according to Muotri, who is also a professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine\u2019s Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine. His brain replicas have already traveled to the International Space Station (ISS), where their activity was studied under conditions of microgravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers worldwide can now create highly realistic brain cortical organoids \u2014 essentially miniature artificial brains with functioning neural networks \u2014 thanks to a proprietary protocol released this month by researchers at the University of California San Diego. The new technique, published in Nature Protocols (\u201cGeneration of \u2018semi-guided\u2019 cortical organoids with complex neural oscillations\u201d), paves the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195215","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=195215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}