Sentences with phrase «brain organoids do»
«We are who we are because we have experiences, and brain organoids do not have sensory inputs.»
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The summary of his experiment that Gage sent to the neuroscience meeting did not specify the size of the human brain organoids he and his colleagues implanted into mice; he told STAT that he could not talk about the work because he had submitted it to a journal.
Due to the competition and even secrecy surrounding brain organoid research, several leaders in the field did not know what others had accomplished until STAT described it.
Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and other means of perceiving the world, Koch said it would experience something different than what people and other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it conscious of?»
2 - D cell - culture and mouse experiments also provided key evidence of the virus's modus operandi; although the rodent brain doesn't harbor the full contingent of human neural stem cells, it has blood vessels and immune - system components that organoids lack.
For example, to understand why a fetal brain sometimes doesn't reach full size, a condition called microcephaly, the researchers grew organoids using iPS cells derived from a person with the condition.
She disproved the theory that neurons are assigned a certain identity in the embryo, discovered that neurons don't all myelinate their axons in the same way, and is now a pioneer in creating brain organoids to study basic aspects of development.
Organoids grown from the cells of a patient carrying the gene for severe microcephaly, however, didn't grow as large because those brain regions didn't develop properly.
He then describes a few more problems: organoids don't display white matter (a prominent component of human brains), lack some cells types and don't have sensory input.
It was also good to hear that his group are doing more work on the brain organoids, whose creation has already been explained in their group's recent Nature Protocols article.