Organelles
‘Tremendous ethical challenge’: What if lab-grown brains are capable of developing consciousness?
At what point does electro-chemical activity in dissected brain-like tissue become conscious? Yes, I’m talking about the classic sci-fi “brain ...
‘Massive step forward’: Lab-grown mini-brain twitches a muscle
Floating inside a petri dish in a lab at Cambridge University, a single disjointed muscle twitched. Normally that’s not news ...
Using synthetics to design cells with new abilities ‘such as pumping out life-saving drugs’
A German team headed by Dr. Edward Lemke at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory described an entirely synthetic organelle inside living cells ...
Building a better mini brain: How these tiny organoids can boost fight against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
It’s your favorite organ, self-assembling, ready to go ...
Sending tiny organs into space in search for aging, disease secrets
In research that sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, astronauts are conducting experiments on miniature human organs—such ...
