by rss feed | Jul 9, 2024 | brain organoids, cyborgs, Neuralink, News Feeds, robot brains, Robots
What if we could make robots that possess human brain-like structures? Chinese scientists have reportedly made such robots that are each guided at least in part by a small amount of lab-grown brain tissue. These cyborg-like creations, which are being trained to...
by rss feed | Feb 28, 2023 | brain organoids, Jacob Hanna, News Feeds, organoid consciousness, stem cell research ethics
Someday could human brain organoids get to the point of having organized human-like thoughts? Even consciousness? The more time passes, the less likely I think this is. It’s not impossible, but brain organoids have big limitations in that regard. To be clear, I...
by rss feed | Aug 2, 2022 | brain organoids, cerebral organoids, Educational, mini brains, News Feeds, organoids
Organoids including brain organoids are an exciting, relatively new area of research. This technology is having a powerful impact on biomedical science, which is the focus of today’s post. What’s in this post Definition of organoids | Brain organoids...
by rss feed | Aug 17, 2021 | brain, brain organoids, News Feeds, organoids, Vision
Sometimes a paper really catches your eye like a new Cell Stem Cell pub reporting eye-like structures grown on brain organoids. The paper is Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles. Let’s take a quick look at this paper,...
by rss feed | Feb 28, 2021 | Blog, brain organoids, clinicaltrials.gov, News Feeds, weekly reads
Sometimes change takes a very long time, but with brain organoids or advocating for better information for patients at Clinicaltrials.gov, after waiting you can see some interesting developments. These are two of the regenerative medicine stories of the week, along...
by rss feed | Feb 15, 2021 | Alysson Muotri, Blog, brain, brain organoids, gene editing, Muotri, News Feeds, organoids, sexy science
Organoids and especially brain organoids, which are made from pluripotent stem cells, are one of the most interesting developmental biology technologies of the last half a dozen or so years. Still some folks can’t help but get carried away when thinking about...
