Sentences with phrase «whether brain organoids»
Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and other means of perceiving the world, Koch said it would experience something different than what people and other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it conscious of?»
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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.
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.
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.
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.