What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster

Shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain is extremely difficult to observe in action. Luckily, scientists can use brain organoids — pencil eraser-sized masses of cells that function like human brains but aren’t part of an organism — to look closer. How do they do it? And is it ethical? Madeline Lancaster shares how to make a brain in a lab.

Lesson by Madeline Lancaster, animation by Adam Wells.

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[AbstraktVisaj]

Thank you TedEd for bringing us yet another informative video with amazing animation.

[RemingtonHillOfficial]

I’m going to write a science fiction script for a movie about organoid rights

[parallel]

What is a mini brain?

It's what I have in my skull.

[minimalisticadvise]

Love the animation
so simple yet captures each phenomenon beautifully especially the brains learning part.
Also thank you for telling us about such research, I never knew this was already achieved 5 years ago and i am gonna be a doctor. In our country research are not given priority but learning by your videos is way to pass those walls.

[bookdream]

This is insanely fascinating, well explained, and beautifully animated

[samueltheil]

Brain the size of a pencil eraser? So that scene in David Lynch's Eraserhead was legitimate head science, who knew.

[catfishofpl]

I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE!



I have one!

[siddhiraskar]

Ahh...The animation is soo smooth My OCD brain is satisfied.

[TheRealEndead]

The analogies used throughout the entire video is on point. Really makes the subject a lot easier to learn.

[fariesz]

0:33 so you're saying there's a moat around my consciousness and it has duckies in it.
accurate.

[pikerpoler]

it is just amazing how they utilize every bit of animation to deliver both the information and the message they want to deliver. when making this video, way more taught was put into it than it shows. that is part of why it is so good

[YokubouTenshi]

0:54
Someone should tell the animator that schizophrenia isn't split personality.

[indravargas]

I LOVED the animation of this video. Excellent as always, Ted-Ed.

[wingeddance]

Please use this art style and genre of music from now on. It's so relaxing and helps me focus on the topic at hand.

[jenl]

As a visual person I really love this animation at best. It keeps pace with the subtitles the most.

[manavsingh]

Which software you use for making these animations? I wanna learn too. It's amazing!

[quantummight]

"What makes us human?" Didn't Aristotle kinda answered that by defining the different kinds of species in dependence with their capabilities?

[laurynk]

2:53 SQUID GAME??

phenomenal animation work btw

[leonardosforzin]

What about a video about consciousness and self-consciousness?