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Questions such as whether and when brain organoids might become sentient are «important,» Arlotta said, «and we need to discuss these issues as a community.

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Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

When the scientists shined light on a rat's eye, or stimulated brain regions involved in vision, neurons in the implanted organoid fired.

According to his unpublished findings, when he puts glioblastoma cells from patients into lab dishes with brain organoids, the cells attach to the surface of the organoids, burrow into them, and within 24 to 48 hours grow into a mass that eventually «looks exactly like what happened in the patient's own brain,» Fine said.

When the team added a prototype Zika virus strain to the 3D brain model, the organoid shrank.

Not unsurprisingly given the fact that microcephaly has not been associated with dengue, the neurospheres survived much better than when infected with Zika and the brain organoids showed no reduction in growth when compared to the controls.