Images show 4 - week -
old brain organoids with no infection (left) and with Zika infection (middle, virus is green, dead stem cells are pink).
Not exact matches
A
brain organoid infected by Zika virus at 28 days
old is severely stunted two weeks later (right) compared with a healthy
organoid of the same age (left).
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.