This Lab-Grown Brain Made a Muscle TWITCH, Here’s How

Growing brains can be a tricky process, but growing ones that can make muscles move? That's an incredible feat. Here's how scientists did it.

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Cerebral organoids at the air-liquid interface generate nerve tracts with functional output
"The capacity for this model to be used to investigate the way in which neurons connect up within the brain and with the spinal cord could have important implications for our understanding of a range of diseases. In particular defects in neuronal connectivity are thought to underlie various psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, autism, and depression. "

Cerebral organoids at the air–liquid interface generate diverse nerve tracts with functional output
"Finally, through electrophysiological and co-culture studies, we demonstrate functionality of these tracts, which are even capable of eliciting coordinated muscle contractions in co-cultured mouse spinal cord–muscle explants. This approach is likely to be a useful new tool, not only because of its ease, but also due to its util-ity in studying axon guidance, tract formation, and connectivity in a human system"

What's Wrong With Growing Blobs of Brain Tissue?
"The stuff we really care about in the brain, like consciousness, are emergent phenomena—they arise from the collective workings of individual neurons, which create a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts. The problem is that we don’t know at what level these phenomena emerge. A neuron is not conscious. A person is. What about all the steps in the middle? What about 2 million neurons? 20 million? 200 million?"

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[BlackSun]

The argument "It's just Science-Fiction." is now officially a dead argument.

[Sciencerely]

As a stem cell researcher, I am thrilled to see the development in cerebral organoids - This might be our big chance to develop effective drugs for dementia related diseases such as Alzheimer's!

[nickgehr]

So, that mini brain starts a streaming channel for your muscle

[NJCProductions]

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That's how I see things working out currently and the future.

[tdanel]

Her: Why we want to make brains ??
Me: In case of zombie outbreak, we could feed them.

[PRDreams]

We are our brain. The brain grows "us" around it to feel, see, and interact with the world. This is so amazing!!

[Souchirouu]

As someone with TBI this might one day be key to fixing my broken brain. Please keep growing them as it might turn people like me into more normal, functional human beings one day.

[catm]

If the brain develops a consciousness? Yeah, but who is the brain? How does it comprehend existence as just a brain? I say carry on, it's for a better cause.

[techmantra]

Scientist: "I wonder what it's thinking"

Brain: "Bub bub buda bub. Talking away....Takkeee onnn meeee, take on me, i'll beee goooonnnee, in a day or

[Jhon_Human]

Imagine just waking up your first time existing and there's just nothing but you can do this weird thing that you have no idea what it does

[scotthaliday]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. This will hopefully change the world.
Well done scientist's, we'll done.
👏👏👏👏

[ProfessorVuubik]

Brains grow to seek a control interface is what I got from this.

[mistersebaa]

In case of a zombie apocalypse...



Scientists: *We got this covered*

[alexwingfield]

Absolutely to advance our health and understanding of our brains the research is invaluable

[mr.personhumanson]

Will vegan and vegetarian zombies eat lab grown brain?

[christian_swjy]

imagine.... an organic brain powered computer

[tyronewilliams]

So damn exciting yet Black mirror levels of terrifying

[ferna]

Do you understand how amazing this is? This could heal all types of encephalopathies.

[MrXandervm]

I have Congenital Anosmia ( meaning i lack the ability to smell, in my case because i lack both olfactory bulbs ) and hope this is a step in the right direction to maybe fix in in 30 years or so

[motobazuka]

That moment when a 4 day video upload gap from​ seeker feels like a lifetime!