实验室培养皿中培育出带血管的微型大脑

Neuroscience We’re getting closer to being able to grow a brain inside a lab dish Carissa Wong A TINY version of the developing cerebral cortex – a brain region involved in thinking, memory and problem-solving – has been grown in a lab dish, with a system of blood vessels that closely resembles the real thing. This clump of cells is one of the most detailed brain organoids created to date, and will deepen our understanding of the brain. Brain organoids, sometimes called mini-brains, are typically grown in lab dishes by bathing stem cells in a mixture of chemical cues, which coax them to form balls of cells. …