{"id":219626,"date":"2025-08-08T04:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-a-mini-human-brain-that-lights-up-and-connects-like-the-real-thing"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:03:33","slug":"johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-a-mini-human-brain-that-lights-up-and-connects-like-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-a-mini-human-brain-that-lights-up-and-connects-like-the-real-thing","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins scientists grow a mini human brain that lights up and connects like the real thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/johns-hopkins-scientists-grow-a-mini-human-brain-that-lights-up-and-connects-like-the-real-thing2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with rudimentary blood vessels and neural activity. This new \u201cmulti-region brain organoid\u201d connects different brain parts, producing electrical signals and simulating early brain development. By watching these mini-brains evolve, researchers hope to uncover how conditions like autism or schizophrenia arise, and even test treatments in ways never before possible with animal models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with rudimentary blood vessels and neural activity. This new \u201cmulti-region brain organoid\u201d connects different brain parts, producing electrical signals and simulating early brain development. By watching these mini-brains evolve, researchers hope to uncover how conditions like autism or schizophrenia arise, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219626","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}