{"id":201856,"date":"2024-12-18T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/human-minibrains-launched-into-space-thrived-in-an-unexpected-way"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:25:06","slug":"human-minibrains-launched-into-space-thrived-in-an-unexpected-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/human-minibrains-launched-into-space-thrived-in-an-unexpected-way","title":{"rendered":"Human Minibrains Launched Into Space Thrived in an Unexpected Way"},"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\/d960TZ6HcTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-an-organoid\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">organoids<\/a> for a short holiday on the International Space Station back in 2019. What they got back a month later amazed them.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were the cells healthy and thriving after weeks of weightlessness \u2013 they had matured faster than the same cells here on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the International Space Station back in 2019. What they got back a month later amazed them. Not only were the cells healthy and thriving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201856","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}