{"id":220894,"date":"2025-08-24T23:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-graphene-technology-matures-brain-organoids-faster-may-unlock-neurodegenerative-insights"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:03:37","slug":"new-graphene-technology-matures-brain-organoids-faster-may-unlock-neurodegenerative-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-graphene-technology-matures-brain-organoids-faster-may-unlock-neurodegenerative-insights","title":{"rendered":"New Graphene Technology Matures Brain Organoids Faster, May Unlock Neurodegenerative Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-graphene-technology-matures-brain-organoids-faster-may-unlock-neurodegenerative-insights.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have developed a novel method to stimulate and mature human brain organoids using graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. Published in Nature Communications, the study introduces Graphene-Mediated Optical Stimulation (GraMOS), a safe, non-genetic, biocompatible, non-damaging way to influence neural activity over days to weeks. The approach accelerates brain organoid development \u2014 especially important for modeling age-related conditions like Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2014 and even allows them to control robotic devices in real time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a game-changer for brain research,\u201d said Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., corresponding author, professor of pediatrics, and director of the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research Center. \u201cWe can now speed up brain organoid maturation without altering their genetic code, opening doors for disease research, brain\u2013machine interfaces and other systems combining living brain cells with technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have developed a novel method to stimulate and mature human brain organoids using graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. Published in Nature Communications, the study introduces Graphene-Mediated Optical Stimulation (GraMOS), a safe, non-genetic, biocompatible, non-damaging way to influence neural activity over days to weeks. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220894","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}