Dr. Angels Almenar-Queralt is Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. The organoid field has come a long way in a relatively short amount of time. The ...

Neural organoids have been heralded as having huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the brain in several fields. These include exploring the responses of brain tissue to drugs, investigating ...

The idea of growing a functioning human brain-like tissues in a dish has always sounded pretty far-fetched, even to researchers in the field. Towards the future goal, a Japanese and French research ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

Neurological disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, remain challenging to diagnose due to the absence of objective biomarkers. Current assessments largely rely on subjective clinical ...

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The microelectrode array with neural networks from different origins (cell line) over time: left to right shows progression from 6 days after plating to 37 days after plating on the microelectrode ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. The Emerging Field of Human Neural Organoids, Transplants, and ...