The tissue will be used to grow “cerebral organoids” that resemble different regions of the human brain. “People are more worried about if they reach a certain level — if it’s really like a human brain. “This gives us aspects of human brain development that were previously inaccessible. Most of the work we’re doing right now is to study really the hidden biology of the human brain,” Pasca said. So far, a human organoid in a mouse brain makes up only a tiny portion of the brain.

Source: Washington Post September 02, 2018 23:48 UTC