Scientists grow first fully formed lab brain

The pluripotent cells were induced to grow into a brain and the central nervous system. However, with our rapid advances in science, they may not stay theoretical for long.

This week, Ohio State University (OSU) researcher, Dr. Rene Anand, PhD, MS whose laboratory is focused on studying how genes and the environment interact to increase susceptibility to neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders in an effort to develop brain organoids (three-dimensional organ-bud grown in a laboratory) to study autism, drug addiction and Parkinson’s disease, revealed his team developed a almost complete human brain that equals the brain maturity of a 5-week-old fetus. Taking a chance with a shoestring budget compared to other researchers doing similar projects, he added stem-cell engineering to his research program.

However, as amazing-and frightening-this work is, Prof. That age affords a baby the ability to squirm, move its eye muscles, close it fingers, and move its toes.

But the researchers claim that this time “we have grown the entire brain from the get-go”. It’s more hard to create a human brain, since it’s much more complex than any other organ, but Anand and his colleagues used a technique in which they differentiated between cells that were intended to become neural tissue, parts of the central nervous system, or other types of tissue in the brain.

“We don’t have any sensory stimuli entering the brain”.

He couldn’t grow a bigger brain because after five weeks the brain needs a vascular system, something Anand can’t produce yet.

News10 reported that one of the researchers said that the brain’s inability to think alleviates any ethical concerns.

But experts agree that if the claims prove true, it could revolutionize the way personalized medical treatment is delivered. These cells were then coaxed into developing the different cell types and signalling circuitry of the brain. We can look at the expression of every gene in the human genome at every step of the development process and see how they change with different toxins.