{"id":77985,"date":"2018-04-22T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-implanted-tiny-human-brains-into-mice"},"modified":"2018-04-22T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T14:42:22","slug":"scientists-implanted-tiny-human-brains-into-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-implanted-tiny-human-brains-into-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Implanted Tiny Human Brains Into Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-implanted-tiny-human-brains-into-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mice helped the tiny organoids get nutrients, oxygen, and even start developing human neurons.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.4127\" target=\"_blank\">Salk Institute<\/a> implanted lentil-sized human brain organoids into the heads of mice, then closed it with a transparent window. The mice looked and behaved like ordinary mice, while supplying blood and nutrients to keep human brains developing for months.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/animals\/a19881094\/scientists-implanted-tiny-human-brains-into-mice\/\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/animals\/a19881094\/s...into-mice\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mice helped the tiny organoids get nutrients, oxygen, and even start developing human neurons. Getty Images Scientists at the Salk Institute implanted lentil-sized human brain organoids into the heads of mice, then closed it with a transparent window. The mice looked and behaved like ordinary mice, while supplying blood and nutrients to keep human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77985","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\/77985","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}