Successfully developed miniature human brains in the laboratory

Scientists from the University of California (USA) have successfully developed miniature human brains accompanied by many blood vessels in the laboratory.

After transplanting small brains (just 1mm long) into mice for two weeks, scientists found the brain developed capillaries that pierced through all the layers within the brain, according to the Daily Mail on 5. / 4.

Images show that capillaries grow and pierce through all the tiny inner brain layers that have been successfully developed in the laboratory.

This achievement can help researchers develop larger human brains. In the future, they hope to use this brain cell to treat stroke patients.

This study was inspired by the study of rare disease Moyamoya - a pathology of cerebral vessels characterized by progressive lesions that slowly block blood flow to the brain - by a neurosurgeon Ben Waldeu of the University of California.
To study the brain involved in this disease, scientists have to create brains cultured from stem cells.

Dr. Waldeu and colleagues combined stem cells with other body cells to make blood vessels.

This study was published in NeuroReport.