First published on the Steem blockchain by @remlaps on February 07, 2023. View the original post.
In an advance toward the possible future treatment of major brain injuries, human brain cells implanted into injured rat brains were observed responding to visual stimuli.
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Back in October, I posted about scientists from Stanford who put human neurons into rats' brains. In that work, the researchers observed that the human brain organoid was able to grow and form connections inside the rat brain.
There was another study in January where human brain cells were implanted into healthy mice and observed to respond to light.
Today, I read news of a similar study that was published by a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science. The team reported their results in the Open Access journal, Cell Stem Cell on February 2. Here is the paper's Abstract:
