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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Because Trump is successfully building the wall, Democrats are desperate for new voters and have to get them where they can.
Your typical autopsy of a DemonRat.
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.
Lab brains would make good Dems.....because they’d be soulless.

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?

Oh my goodness! How did that picture of Justin Trudeau ever end up in this posting? How terrible!
It’s not clear whether the pea-sized brains are conscious:
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AOCs origin story
Democrat brains.
Amazing science.
Maybe one day soon this medical technology will lead to cures for degenerative neurological diseases.
Maxine waters has heard the news and is elbowing her way to the front of the line for one.
This will not end well.
LOL. I’ll see your Justin Trudeau and raise you one Marianne Deborah Williamson.
There is hope for Joe Biden, yet!
They dont know if its conscious? Perhaps they could rig vocal cords and see if it screams?
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!
Its nice to see our aborted babies helping scientists with their lab dishes.
That’s more brain activity than alot of liberals have.
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