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          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience
          ·February 22, 2021·4 min read

          ‘Mini Brain’ Organoids Grown in Lab Mature Much Like Infant Brains

          Brain organoids, or mini-brains, created from human stem cells appear to develop in much the same way as a human brain. The organoids follow an internal clock that guides their maturation in sync with the timeline for human brain development.
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          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·December 16, 2021·4 min read

          ‘Mini-Brains’ Provide Clues About Early Life Origins of Schizophrenia

          Brain organoid study reveals multiple changes in brain cells during early embryonic development may contribute to schizophrenia later in life.
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          FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·December 8, 2017·5 min read

          3D Mini Brains Accelerate Research for Repairing Brain Function

          Researchers have developed a new method of reducing the time it takes to grow mini brain models in the lab. This may accelerate research into diseases and injury that affect the nervous system.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·August 23, 2021·6 min read

          Brain Organoids With Complex Neural Activity Developed

          Newly developed brain organoids grown from stem cells showed organized waves of neural activity similar to that seen in living human brains.
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          ·April 9, 2017·6 min read

          Discovery of ‘Mini-Brains’ Could Change Understanding of Pain Medication

          Findings could help with the development of new painkillers to target back pain, arthritis and other pain disorders.
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          FeaturedNeuroethicsNeuroscience
          ·September 19, 2023·4 min read

          DishBrain: Bio-Computing’s Rise and Ethics in the Age of Living Machines

          The revolutionary field of bio-computing is making waves as DishBrain, a neural system combining 800,000 living brain cells, learns to play Pong. Recognizing the pressing need for ethical guidelines in this emerging domain, the pioneers behind DishBrain have joined forces with bioethicists in a study.
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          FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience
          ·July 26, 2021·5 min read

          Early Signs of Frontotemporal Dementia Found in Personalized Cerebral Organoids

          Researchers recreated the damage seen in frontotemporal dementia in brain organoid models. The study reveals an experimental drug designed to treat Crohn's disease may help prevent neuron death associated with FTD.
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          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience
          ·March 24, 2021·5 min read

          How Humans Develop Larger Brains Than Other Apes

          Using brain organoid models, researchers have identified how the brain grows much larger and has three times as many neurons, as the brains of chimpanzees and gorillas.
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          A mini brain organoid is shown.
          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·March 8, 2019·2 min read

          Increasingly Complex Mini-brains

          Brazilian scientists produce brain organoids with primitive eyes using computational fluid dynamics.
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          Image shows organoids from stem cells.
          FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience
          ·July 27, 2017·3 min read

          Lab-Created Mini-Brains Reveal How Growing Organ Maintains Neuronal Balance

          Researchers used hPSCs to grow an organoid that produces inhibitory neurons and plays a critical role in the early development of the cortex.
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          This shows a mini-brain in a petri dish
          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·August 29, 2019·6 min read

          Machine learning algorithm can’t distinguish these lab mini-brains from preemie babies

          Machine learning is unable to tell the difference in brain activity between a lab-grown mini-brain and that of a preterm infant who has reached full-term.
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          Image shows a mini brain infected with Zika virus.
          FeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·April 22, 2016·6 min read

          Mini Brains Add to Evidence of Zika’s Toll on Fetal Cortex

          Researchers have confirmed a key way in which the Zika virus causes damage to fetal brains.
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