In another study scheduled to be presented at the neuroscience meeting — 21
brain organoid papers are on tap — researchers led by Dr. Isaac Chen, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pennsylvania, implanted human cerebral organoids into the brains of 11 adult rats, specifically the secondary visual cortex.
Not exact matches
In the previously unreported experiments implanting human
brain organoids into lab rodents, most of the transplants survived, in one case for at least two months, according to summaries of the two
papers being presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C..
The
paper, by P.P. Garcez at D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and colleagues was titled, «Zika virus impairs growth in human neurospheres and
brain organoids.»
A few months before the 2013 Sasai team
paper, Madeline Lancaster and Juergen Knoblich of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna and U.K. colleagues demonstrated their more freewheeling, landmark approach to growing
brain organoids (SN: 9/21/13, p. 5).
In 2014, Fine read the
paper that launched the
brain organoid revolution.