And do NOT teach your brains to gamble!
Posted on 04/27/2017 7:40:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists have grown the first working 'mini-brains' in a dish which could provide future treatments for autism and epilepsy.
The lab-grown organs have their own brain cells, formed into circuits similar to those of a two-month-old baby in the womb.
Described as 'thrilling science', it is the first time a human forebrain has been seen in action outside the body.
Scientists hope to use the mini-brains to watch in real time the triggers for epilepsy, when brain cells become hyperactive, and autism, where they are thought to form bad connections.
It could pave the way for drugs to treat these conditions, as well as schizophrenia. It is also the next step towards a real-life Frankenstein, suggesting scientists may one day be able to grow an entire human body in the laboratory.
Researchers at Stanford University grew two forebrain circuits, measuring only a sixteenth of an inch across, using only human skin cells.
Then scientists at Harvard University went a step further, growing a mini-organ for more than nine months to create a human retina – the light-sensitive lining at the back of the eye.
Responding to the breakthroughs, Professor Paul Matthews, chair of the brain sciences division at Imperial College London, said: 'These reports describe continued advances of the fundamentally important new methods for generation of self-assembled 'brain organoids'. This is thrilling science.'
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Artificial 'brain in a dish' is created in a world first: Breakthrough could shed light on conditions such as Alzheimer's
Disembodied brains. What could go wrong? What are they thinking? I’m no Luddite, but this bothers me.
Brains in a dish.
Early 20th century SF writer Olaf Stapledon wrote a massive work called “Last and First Men”, which was a future history of the evolution of humankind through many iterations. Has anyone read it?
The Fourth Men were the brains in a dish. They ruled the world, and the remaining humans served them, for a while. It ended badly.
At last — hope for liberals!!
...Scientists have grown the first working ‘mini-brains’ in a dish ...
They will all vote Democrat.
Hmmm, proof positive fetuses aren’t just blobs of cells. Oops, that’s not going to go over well with the libs.
Nonsense!
People with working brains don’t vote Democrat!........
And do NOT teach your brains to gamble!
There was a similar Star Trek episode. Had Kirk fight a gladiator duel with a babe in a bikini. The brains were betting on the match.
The show didn’t end well either. Kirk had to leave her behind.
He chose her front instead?
Pelosi received the first one, Maxine the second.
“Hi, I’m the new weekend housekeeper.
Oh, and I washed all those little glass dishes you left in the Laboratory.
Some dishes were piled high with the grossest looking garbage and leftover Hor d’oeuvres. Well, it’s all been cleaned off! How does it look now?”
With border crossings down 90%, how else does one expect the democrats to expand their voter base?
similar to those of a two-month-old baby in the womb.
Wait, wait. I’m confused. Are they saying a two-month old unborn fetus? Because I have been told and told again that that “thing” in a womb is not a “baby”.
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How did that slip past the editor?
LOL I was wondering whether someone would comment when I previewed it. The very next post.
Hey, if you tee it up, I’ll take a swing...
“Scientists have grown the first working ‘mini-brains’ in a dish”......
They could have saved a lot of money and time as there are thousands of “mini-brains” walking all over the place, we call then sno-flakes right now. All it would take is a little re-programming and they might be salvageable.
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