{"id":92751,"date":"2019-06-27T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/researchers-grow-active-mini-brain-networks"},"modified":"2019-06-27T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:04:52","slug":"researchers-grow-active-mini-brain-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/researchers-grow-active-mini-brain-networks","title":{"rendered":"Researchers grow active mini-brain-networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-grow-active-mini-brain-networks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cerebral organoids are artificially grown, 3D tissue cultures that resemble the human brain. Now, researchers from Japan report functional neural networks derived from these organoids in a study publishing June 27 in the journal <i>Stem Cell Reports<\/i>. Although the organoids aren\u2019t actually \u201cthinking,\u201d the researchers\u2019 new tool\u2014which detects neural activity using organoids\u2014could provide a method for understanding human brain function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they can mimic cerebral development, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cerebral+organoids\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cerebral organoids<\/a> can be used as a substitute for the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a> to study complex developmental and neurological disorders,\u201d says corresponding author Jun Takahashi, a professor at Kyoto University.<\/p>\n<p>However, these studies are challenging, because current cerebral organoids lack desirable supporting structures, such as blood vessels and surrounding tissues, Takahashi says. Since researchers have a limited ability to assess the organoids\u2019 neural activities, it has also been difficult to comprehensively evaluate the function of neuronal networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cerebral organoids are artificially grown, 3D tissue cultures that resemble the human brain. Now, researchers from Japan report functional neural networks derived from these organoids in a study publishing June 27 in the journal Stem Cell Reports. Although the organoids aren\u2019t actually \u201cthinking,\u201d the researchers\u2019 new tool\u2014which detects neural activity using organoids\u2014could provide a method [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92751","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}