{"id":239732,"date":"2026-06-26T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-discover-how-a-single-cell-builds-a-brain-with-170-billion-cells"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:08:18","slug":"scientists-discover-how-a-single-cell-builds-a-brain-with-170-billion-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-discover-how-a-single-cell-builds-a-brain-with-170-billion-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how a single cell builds a brain with 170 billion cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-a-single-cell-builds-a-brain-with-170-billion-cells2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use their lineage\u2014their cellular family tree\u2014as a kind of positional map. Cells that come from the same ancestor stay near one another, helping the brain organize itself without relying solely on chemical signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use their lineage\u2014their cellular family tree\u2014as a kind of positional map. Cells that come from the same ancestor stay near one another, helping the brain organize itself without relying solely on chemical signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239732","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}