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Human-like neural activity detected in lab grown mini brains
Yahoo! / AFP ^ | August 29, 2019 | Issam Ahmed

Posted on 08/30/2019 9:35:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

Scientists reported Thursday they had picked up human-like electrical activity in lab-grown brains for the first time, paving the way to model neurological conditions and answer fundamental questions on how our gray matter develops.

It's not clear whether the pea-sized brains are conscious: the team behind the breakthrough suspect they're not because the activity resembles that of preterm babies, but they cannot say for certain, opening up a new ethical dimension to this area of research.

So-called "cerebral organoids" derived from adult stem cells have been around for a decade or so but have never previously developed functional neural networks.

"If you had asked me five years ago 'Would you think that a brain organoid would ever have a sophisticated network able to generate a brain oscillation?' I would say no," Alysson Muotri, a biologist at the University of California San Diego, told AFP.

A paper published by Muotri and his colleagues in the journal Cell Press said that two factors were responsible for the breakthrough. The first was a better procedure to grow stem cells, including optimizing the culture medium formula.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; minibrains
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Possible detection of neural activity in pea-sized brains.

Because Trump is successfully building the wall, Democrats are desperate for new voters and have to get them where they can.

1 posted on 08/30/2019 9:35:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Your typical autopsy of a DemonRat.


2 posted on 08/30/2019 9:36:33 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Further in the article it says “The signals were sparse at first and all at the same frequency, a pattern seen in very immature human brains.”

This is more solid evidence these are Democrats.


3 posted on 08/30/2019 9:37:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Lab brains would make good Dems.....because they’d be soulless.


4 posted on 08/30/2019 9:37:44 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Geoff Montgomery: It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.

Larry Lawrence: You mean like Democrats?

5 posted on 08/30/2019 9:40:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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They should get back to us when these brain cells design the successor to the 747 or the Concorde.
6 posted on 08/30/2019 9:40:38 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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"...cerebral organoids"

Oh my goodness! How did that picture of Justin Trudeau ever end up in this posting? How terrible!

7 posted on 08/30/2019 9:41:24 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s not clear whether the pea-sized brains are conscious:

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AOC’s origin story


8 posted on 08/30/2019 9:45:13 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Democrat brains.


9 posted on 08/30/2019 9:46:26 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Amazing science.

Maybe one day soon this medical technology will lead to cures for degenerative neurological diseases.


10 posted on 08/30/2019 9:49:26 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

11 posted on 08/30/2019 9:51:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Maxine waters has heard the news and is elbowing her way to the front of the line for one.


12 posted on 08/30/2019 9:52:46 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This will not end well.


13 posted on 08/30/2019 9:53:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

LOL. I’ll see your Justin Trudeau and raise you one Marianne Deborah Williamson.


14 posted on 08/30/2019 9:54:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There is hope for Joe Biden, yet!


15 posted on 08/30/2019 9:59:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They don’t know if it’s conscious? Perhaps they could rig vocal cords and see if it screams?


16 posted on 08/30/2019 10:08:44 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Lucky for you, she has no chance of being elected. Unfortunately, our 47 year old male teenage girl drama queen PM, stands a good chance of being re-elected. If so, you’ll soon need to ‘build the wall’...

...although on the NORTHERN border, to prevent all the CANADIANS who want to escape the Kanadahar that he/she/it is creating!


17 posted on 08/30/2019 10:09:52 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s nice to see our aborted babies helping scientists with their lab dishes.


18 posted on 08/30/2019 10:23:55 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The article says "So-called "cerebral organoids" derived from adult stem cells," so it would seem no aborted baby stem cells were used.
19 posted on 08/30/2019 10:29:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s more brain activity than alot of liberals have.


20 posted on 08/30/2019 10:31:50 AM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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