To discover novel therapies for neuropsychiatric illnesses, self-organizing
clumps of human brain tissue generated in the lab have been transplanted
into the nervous systems of newborn rats.
The 3D organoids, grown from stem cells to mimic a simpler model of the
human cortex, fused with the surrounding tissue in each rat’s cortex to
produce a functional component of the rodent’s brain, exhibiting activity
associated with sensory perception.
clumps of human brain tissue generated in the lab have been transplanted
into the nervous systems of newborn rats.
The 3D organoids, grown from stem cells to mimic a simpler model of the
human cortex, fused with the surrounding tissue in each rat’s cortex to
produce a functional component of the rodent’s brain, exhibiting activity
associated with sensory perception.
