Mini Brains Just Got Creepier—They’re Growing Their Own Veins
Mini Brains Just Got Creepier—They’re Growing Their Own Veins
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 3, 20186m 24s
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Show Notes
The first human brain balls—aka cortical spheroids, aka neural organoids—agglomerated into existence just a few short years ago. In the beginning, they were almost comically crude: just stem cells, chemically coerced into proto-neurons and then swirled into blobs in a salty-sweet bath. But still, they were useful for studying some of the most dramatic brain disorders, like the microcephaly caused by the Zika virus. Then they started growing up.
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