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Blood flow would make arrays of brain organoids more likely to survive, grow, and develop.
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On the first day of testing, the mice with human brain organoids made fewer mistakes, finding the right hole more often, but this edge vanished by the second day.
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 human organoids are good for studying the very early stages of brain development, but may not reveal much about later, more mature stages on which things like sociality depend,» says John Mason at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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).
Last August in Neuron, his team described organoids that survived for more than 20 months — long enough, analyses showed, for astrocytes to mature and function in ways that mimic their real - brain counterparts.
In the years since the 2013 debut of human brain organoids, research groups have worked to grow bigger brain tissue clumps and more uniform structures.
Implantable brain organoids could allow researchers to learn more about normal human brain development over time, Chen says.
Yet while autism begins during brain development, and it makes sense that a developing organoid could serve as a model, looking at diseases that affect people toward the end of their lives would seem more difficult.
Scientists at Harvard University grew their brain organoids, also from stem cells, longer than ever before: nine months or more.
He's building brain organoids to learn more about a disease that leads to epilepsy and how to stop it.
He believes this will make organoids more reliable as well as better recapitulate the environment in which our brains naturally develop.
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.