Ranmal Samarasinghe News Today

In a first for USC Stem Cell scientists, the laboratory of Giorgia Quadrato, an assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, has pioneered a novel human brain organoid model that generates all the major cell types of the cerebellum, a hindbrain region predominantly made up of two cell types necessary for movement, cognition, and emotion: granule cells and Purkinje neurons.

Ever since scientists began growing mini human brains from stem cells, this sarcastic question has always been asked: “What could possibly go wrong?” That one got an answer just last week when mini-brains developed early stages of embryonic eyes that reacted to light. The question scientists respond with is: ”What could possibly go right?” We... Read more »