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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..

At a neuroscience meeting, two teams of researchers will report implanting human brain organoids into the brains of lab rats and mice, raising the prospect that the organized, functional human tissue could develop further within a rodent.

Not exact matches

The Salk team therefore took human brain organoids that had been growing in lab dishes for 31 to 50 days and implanted them into mouse brains (more than 200 so far) from which they had removed a tiny bit of tissue to make room.

The 2 - millimeter organoids survived for at least two months, Chen said in an interview, and showed «extensive» growth of human axons into the rat brain.

Chen agrees: He said his experiment «carries much less risk of creating animals with greater «brain power» than normal» because the human organoid goes into «a specific region of already developed brain.»

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.

One concern raised by the human brain organoid implants «is that functional integration [of the organoids] into the central nervous system of animals can in principle alter an animal's behavior or needs,» said bioethicist Jonathan Kimmelman of McGill University in Montreal.

Scientists headed by Dr. Stevens Rehen differentiated human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into neural stem cells and into further complex tridimensional structures, known as neurospheres and brain organoids.

These micro quasi-brains are revolutionizing research on human brain development and diseases from Alzheimer's to Zika, but the headlong rush to grow the most realistic, most highly - developed brain organoids has thrown researchers into uncharted ethical waters.

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.

According to his unpublished findings, when he puts glioblastoma cells from patients into lab dishes with brain organoids, the cells attach to the surface of the organoids, burrow into them, and within 24 to 48 hours grow into a mass that eventually «looks exactly like what happened in the patient's own brain,» Fine said.

Novitch's UCLA lab group has likewise used its brain organoids to pinpoint additional receptors by which the virus may gain entry into neural stem cells, and identified a few other drug leads for blocking infection.

«Organoids offer an unprecedented level of access into the inner workings of the human brain,» Novitch says, noting that our brains are largely off - limits to poking and cutting into for research.

Now he and his team are putting cells from human brain tumors into the organoids, which have reached the level of development and complexity of a 20 - week - old human fetus's, to see whether they reprise what happens in patients.

To grow larger brains, the stem cells would also have to differentiate into blood vessels to supply nutrients to the growing organoid.

Additionally, optogenetics experiments showed that the organoids» neurons were integrated into synaptic circuits in the mice's brains.

Rodent models can't capture the years long path of human brain development, but 3D human organoids now give researchers a window into later stages of development of our burgeoning central nervous system.