Sentences with phrase «creating brain organoid»

Scientists can't yet grow spare parts of the human brain to fix neurological injuries or defects, but they have recently used stem cells to create brain organoids, formations of cells that mimic some of the brain's regions.

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.

To determine whether the Zika virus caused this, a number of independent teams of researchers — including two in Brazil and one at the University of California, San Diego — created brain organoids from healthy human cells and infected some of them with the Zika virus.

Not exact matches

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

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.»

In the barely three years since biologists discovered how to create these «brain organoids,» the lentil - sized structures have taken neuroscience by storm.

His team's first brain organoids were created from the cells of healthy people.

Researchers elsewhere quickly adapted the methodology to create additional organoids — of the eye, lung, heart and brain — and their associated diseases, including cancers.