{"id":207365,"date":"2025-02-27T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/tiny-lab-grown-bits-of-human-brain-have-been-combined-to-create-a-more-complete-organ"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:09:08","slug":"tiny-lab-grown-bits-of-human-brain-have-been-combined-to-create-a-more-complete-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/tiny-lab-grown-bits-of-human-brain-have-been-combined-to-create-a-more-complete-organ","title":{"rendered":"Tiny, lab-grown bits of human brain have been combined to create a more complete organ"},"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\/qTz1eajMer4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Le Page explains how this \u201cmulti-region brain organoid\u201d contains 80 per cent of the cell types found in a 40-day-old fetal brain.<\/p>\n<p>The team behind it aims to study conditions like autism and schizophrenia \u2014 with some suggesting they could one day be used in artificial intelligence. But this all throws up major ethical issues\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hear the full story on New Scientist Weekly, a news podcast for the insatiably curious, hosted by Rowan Hooper and Penny Sarchet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<br \/> Learn more \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/podcasts\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/podcasts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get more from New Scientist:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/tiny-lab-grown-bits-of-human-brain-have-been-combined-to-create-a-more-complete-organ\">Continue reading \u201cTiny, lab-grown bits of human brain have been combined to create a more complete organ\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Le Page explains how this \u201cmulti-region brain organoid\u201d contains 80 per cent of the cell types found in a 40-day-old fetal brain. The team behind it aims to study conditions like autism and schizophrenia \u2014 with some suggesting they could one day be used in artificial intelligence. But this all throws up major ethical [\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-207365","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\/207365","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=207365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}