This is an obvious hurdle for longtime study» if the goal is to follow brain development for longer than a trimester or two prenatally, the stage at which the current crop of
brain organoids start to wither.
Not exact matches
Wrinkles began to form in the outer layers of the
organoids about six days after the mini
brains started growing.
Around the same time, Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, cultured the first
brain organoids,
starting not with adult stem cells but with embryonic stem cells.
Garcez and her colleagues at the Instituto D'Or in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are
starting experiments in which they will infect so - called cerebral
organoids — tiny models of the developing human
brain — with Zika virus and see whether their development is affected.