{"id":84914,"date":"2018-11-19T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/lab-grown-mini-brains-produce-electrical-patterns-that-resemble-those-of-premature-babies"},"modified":"2018-11-19T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:04:07","slug":"lab-grown-mini-brains-produce-electrical-patterns-that-resemble-those-of-premature-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/lab-grown-mini-brains-produce-electrical-patterns-that-resemble-those-of-premature-babies","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown \u2018mini brains\u2019 produce electrical patterns that resemble those of premature babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-mini-brains-produce-electrical-patterns-that-resemble-those-of-premature-babies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Promising news: \u2018Mini brains\u2019 grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time \u2014 and the electrical patterns look similar to those seen in premature babies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Structures could help researchers to study the early stages of brain development disorders, including epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-07402-0\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;018&#45;07402&#45;0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promising news: \u2018Mini brains\u2019 grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time \u2014 and the electrical patterns look similar to those seen in premature babies. Structures could help researchers to study the early stages of brain development disorders, including epilepsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914","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\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}