Sentences with phrase «of cerebral organoids»

Two phrases made Lunshof sit up: «embryo - like features» and «generation of cerebral organoids.»

But «vascularization» of cerebral organoids also raises such troubling ethical concerns that, previously, the lab paused its efforts to even try it.

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It's «an important technical advance,» said neuroscientist Michal Stachowiak of the State University of New York, Buffalo, who created human cerebral organoids to study schizophrenia, and «an important initial step toward using organoids in regenerative medicine.»

These «organoids» can develop as many as six layers of cerebral cortex — the outer surface of the brain.

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.

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.

«For example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally in growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like organs that can be studied in laboratory experiments — «from stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.

Producing mini-Timothy-syndrome-brains-in-a-dish is only one of the remarkable new advances in the exploding science of «cerebral organoids,» miniature, three - dimensional human brain - like structures.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital are leveraging these new technologies to study the effects of DISC1 mutations in cerebral organoids - «mini brains» - cultured from human stem cells.

«This shows that the approach has much greater potential than we ever imagined,» said Juergen Knoblich, of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Austria, a pioneer in creating cerebral organoids who was not involved in either study.

Called cortical spheroids, they differ from cerebral organoids in that the former mimic specific regions of the brain, such as the front, rather than many sections.