{"id":206771,"date":"2025-02-19T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/human-brain-organoids-a-novel-tool-for-unlocking-the-potential-and-promise-of-stem-cells"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:06:19","slug":"human-brain-organoids-a-novel-tool-for-unlocking-the-potential-and-promise-of-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/human-brain-organoids-a-novel-tool-for-unlocking-the-potential-and-promise-of-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Human Brain Organoids: A Novel Tool for Unlocking the Potential and Promise of Stem Cells"},"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\/iU6yDcmbKM8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center member Ranmal Samarasinghe, MD, PhD presents his work using brain organoids to create better models of neurological disorders. An Assistant Professor in UCLA\u2019s Neurology department, Dr. Samarasinghe splits his time between the clinic, seeing patients who have neurological conditions like epilepsy and autism, and in the lab working to create more detailed disease models using brain organoids. In this video, Dr. Samarasinghe discusses how brain organoids are becoming more sophisticated in their ability to replicate irregular brain wave patterns seen in conditions like Rett syndrome, an epilepsy primarily associated with infants. Ultimately, he hopes these stem cell-based models can be used to screen new drugs and discover new treatments for diseases like epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Dr. Samarasinghe\u2019s work here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stemcell.ucla.edu\/member\/sama\">https:\/\/stemcell.ucla.edu\/member\/sama<\/a>\u2026 the full \u201cThe Power of Regenerative Medicine: Future Treatments for Brain Disease\u201d webinar: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \u2022 The Power of Regenerative Medicine: F\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center member Ranmal Samarasinghe, MD, PhD presents his work using brain organoids to create better models of neurological disorders. An Assistant Professor in UCLA\u2019s Neurology department, Dr. Samarasinghe splits his time between the clinic, seeing patients who have neurological conditions like epilepsy and autism, and in the lab working to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206771","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=206771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}