It has long been a goal of the scientific community to understand the mysteries of how the human brain develops from just a few cells into an organ capable of coordinating conscious thought. Slowly but surely, scientists are illuminating this black box of biology, both through studies of human brain cells and of living brains in laboratory animals like mice. These approaches have their limitations: … Continue reading Cerebral Organoids: A tool to study human brain development

Researchers studying neural development are plagued with an ever-present difficulty: how does one study the developing human brain without using invasive methods or being restricted to post-mortem tissue? Due to the complexity of human brain development, research has been able to answer few questions about neural developmental defects beyond those observable in animal models or in human cell cultures. This task is further complicated by … Continue reading Brains in a Dish Establish New Tool for Developmental Neuroscience