{"id":219600,"date":"2025-08-07T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-novel-whole-brain-organoid"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:07:04","slug":"johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-novel-whole-brain-organoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-novel-whole-brain-organoid","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins scientists grow novel \u2018whole-brain\u2019 organoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-novel-whole-brain-organoid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels\u2014an advance that could usher in a new era of research into neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve made the next generation of brain organoids,\u201d said lead author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathurialabs.com\/\">Annie Kathuria<\/a>, an assistant professor in JHU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/\">Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/a> who studies brain development and neuropsychiatric disorders. \u201cMost brain organoids that you see in papers are one brain region, like the cortex or the hindbrain or midbrain. We\u2019ve grown a rudimentary whole-brain organoid; we call it the multi-region brain organoid (MRBO).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels\u2014an advance that could usher in a new era of research into neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism. \u201cWe\u2019ve made the next generation of brain organoids,\u201d said lead author Annie Kathuria, an assistant professor in JHU\u2019s Department of Biomedical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219600","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=219600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}