{"id":227037,"date":"2025-12-13T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lab-grown-neural-circuits-reveal-thalamuss-key-role-in-cortex-development"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:12:02","slug":"lab-grown-neural-circuits-reveal-thalamuss-key-role-in-cortex-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lab-grown-neural-circuits-reveal-thalamuss-key-role-in-cortex-development","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown neural circuits reveal thalamus\u2019s key role in cortex development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-neural-circuits-reveal-thalamuss-key-role-in-cortex-development.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs known as assembloids, which are derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. With this circuit, the team demonstrated that the thalamus plays a crucial role in shaping cell type-specific neural circuits in the human cerebral cortex.<\/p>\n<p>These findings were published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2506573122\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our brain\u2019s cerebral cortex contains various types of neurons, and effective communication among these neurons and other brain regions is crucial for activating functions like perception and cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs known as assembloids, which are derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. With this circuit, the team demonstrated that the thalamus plays a crucial role in shaping cell type-specific neural circuits in the human cerebral cortex. These findings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227037","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\/227037","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}