"By fusing organoids that produce distinct morphogens and precisely controlling the timing and quantity of morphogen-producing cells in these fusions, polar cortical assembloids (PolCAs) serve as an ...

Because of their usefulness in studying infectious diseases and the production of new medications, replicas of brain tissue made from stem cells have started to play an important role in biotechnology ...

UC San Diego researchers develop new protocol for creating human cortical organoids, mini-brains derived directly from primary cells that can be used to better explore and understand the real thing ...

For a long time, no one understood that Holden Hulet was having seizures. “He would just say ‘I feel tingly, and my vision kind of goes blurry,’” said Holden’s mom, JJ Hulet. “But he couldn’t ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

“We just suddenly had enough information about the biology of disease really by using these human stem cell models that a therapeutic opportunity just became a possibility,” he said. Paşca’s group ...

Severe forms of autism could be linked to overgrowth of the brain's outer layer that starts while a baby is in the womb, a new study finds. Toddlers with autism have cerebral cortexes -- often ...