Sentences with phrase «brain in petri dishes»

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After finding that GDF10 was a possible signal for brain repair, the team analyzed the molecule in a petri dish.

In the researchers» petri dishes, different cell types develop, connect into a network, exchange signals and produce metabolic products typical of the active brain.

The cell cultures in the petri dishes are of human origin, and in some aspects resemble human brains more than the brains of lab animals such as rats or mice do.

After treating the IPS cells in a petri dish to set them on a path to mature into dopaminergic neurons, the cells were grafted into the dopamine - deficient hemispheres of the parkinsonian rats» brains.

The second used brain organoids, which are often referred to as miniature brains growing in petri dishes, but are actually just bundles of human tissue that have some features of the early human brain in the first trimester.

But for several years scientists at Stanford University's School of Medicine have been working to mimic in a petri dish critical features of development of a human cerebral cortex — essentially working to build models for watching a brain grow.

One new way that scientists study this process of cellular development — and a way in which they hope to grow replacement tissue for medical treatments in the future — is by recreating the essential features of human brains, eyes, lungs, and guts in a petri dish.

Stanford scientists grew brain cells in a petri dish to show the 3D cluster formation in early forebrain development.

It is now almost routine to grow skin cells from a patient with, say, a neurological disease; turn them into pluripotent cells in a Petri dish; convert the cells into nerve cells to study the disease process; and contemplate using the cells to repair the same patient's damaged brain.

This is especially so in a series of seven medium - sized, thickly layered works - the earliest in the exhibition - that suggest various coagulated microcosms: sticky honeycomb; the human brain; obscure samples in Petri dishes; oily, broken - down newsprint.