{"id":243571,"date":"2026-09-03T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/harvard-neuroscientists-kept-peppercornsized-clumps-of-human-brain-cells-alive-in-a-dish-for-more-than-five-years"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:07:30","slug":"harvard-neuroscientists-kept-peppercornsized-clumps-of-human-brain-cells-alive-in-a-dish-for-more-than-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/harvard-neuroscientists-kept-peppercornsized-clumps-of-human-brain-cells-alive-in-a-dish-for-more-than-five-years","title":{"rendered":"Harvard neuroscientists kept peppercornsized clumps of human brain cells alive in a dish for more than five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-neuroscientists-kept-peppercornsized-clumps-of-human-brain-cells-alive-in-a-dish-for-more-than-five-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Harvard-led team has kept peppercorn-sized human brain organoids alive and maturing for over five years \u2014 more than triple the previous 694-day record \u2014 with the tissue tracking human developmental time so closely that older cells can skip ahead by months when prompted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard-led team has kept peppercorn-sized human brain organoids alive and maturing for over five years \u2014 more than triple the previous 694-day record \u2014 with the tissue tracking human developmental time so closely that older cells can skip ahead by months when prompted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243571","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=243571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}