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DATE: August 19, 2026 at 11:00AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS NEUROSCIENCETITLE: STAT+: Brain organoids, kept alive more than five years, matured like human brains
A little more than two years ago, a junior scientist walked into Paola Arlotta’s Harvard office with a set of mesmerizing images and asked if she wanted to see what the old brain organoids look like.
Arlotta, a developmental neurobiologist, turned in surprise. “You analyzed them?” she exclaimed.
Irene Faravelli’s face fell. She had, but now she wondered if that had been a grave mistake. Arlotta assured her everything was fine. In fact it was great. “I was actually pleased that somebody had the courage to do this,” Arlotta recalled to STAT in a recent interview.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #BrainOrganoids #FiveYearOrganoids #HarvardNeuroscience #BrainResearch #OrganoidMaturation #Neurodevelopment #StemCellResearch #NeuroscienceNews #STATPlus #InVitroBrainModel
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Forget sentient #AI. Worry about living computers. #organoids #BrainOrganoids
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/13/opinion/dishbrains-wetware-biocomputing/ -
FRANKENSTEIN ON A CHIP 💎
HAVE WE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH?I watched a creepy video this morning:
We're Not Ready for Biocomputing
https://youtu.be/uKhsbQcFVwQ?si=ByqFGsi-gpr4qw64Researchers at Cortical Labs have built a biological computing system using around 200,000 living human neurons connected to electrodes.
The neurons receive signals, respond to feedback, and contribute to controlling a computer game. They demonstrated it with Doom.
There is currently no evidence that these neurons are conscious or suffering.
The video pushes that idea further than the science supports. Much of the Doom system is ordinary computing, with the neurons contributing a smaller but real part.
But I kept thinking about Frankenstein.
The curse of Frankenstein was not simply that Victor created something new.
It was that he created something and then failed to take responsibility for what he had created.
That seems rather relevant.
Researchers are already working with increasingly sophisticated human neural tissue, including three-dimensional brain organoids.
So perhaps we need one simple principle now:
LIVING HUMAN NEURAL TISSUE SHOULD NOT LOSE ETHICAL CONSIDERATION SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS OUTSIDE A HUMAN BODY.
That does not mean a dish of neurons is a person.
It does not mean these neurons are suffering.
It means we should not wait until something can clearly tell us that it suffers before deciding we have obligations toward it.
Inside a skull, living human brain tissue is treated with extraordinary care.
Put similar tissue on a chip, call it “computing substrate”, and our responsibility should not simply disappear.
These systems are still relatively simple.
But the whole direction of biocomputing is toward systems that are more organised, more adaptive and more complex.
That is why the ethics need sorting out before we get there.
Frankenstein’s mistake was not curiosity.
It was creating first and asking what he owed his creation afterwards.
We have already started creating.
Perhaps this time we should ask the question early:
AT WHAT POINT DO WE OWE THE THING WE HAVE GROWN SOME CONSIDERATION?
I would rather we answer that before we build something we can no longer confidently say has no awareness.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Biocomputing #Neuroscience #Bioethics #BrainOrganoids #Frankenstein
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14 – Doctoral Candidates (MSCA CerebroMachinesTrain Doctoral Network)
CMT-DNApplications are invited for 14 Doctoral Candidate (DC) positions across 9 European institutions.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cmt-dn-27778-14-doctoral-candidates-msca-cerebromachinestrain-doctoral-network/
#brainorganoids #cerebrovascular #drugdelivery #microfl...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cmt-dn-27778-14-doctoral-candidates-msca-cerebromachinestrain-doctoral-network/?fsp_sid=11929 -
Postdoctral Fellow - Microfluidic Organoid Research
Tokyo University of ScienceSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/tokyo-university-of-science-27778-postdoctral-fellow-microfluidic-organoid-research/
#brainorganoids #microfluidics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/tokyo-university-of-science-27778-postdoctral-fellow-microfluidic-organoid-research/?fsp_sid=11825 -
Patient-Derived Brain Organoids Offer Insights for Alzheimer's Treatments
📰 Original title: Lab-Grown Mini Brains Could Aid Alzheimer's Research
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/patient-derived-brain-organoids-offer-insights-for-alzheimers-treatments/?redirpost=f05f76a6-046e-4c20-b0d0-acb7b6cdf750
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Scientists Make Breakthrough That Allows Lab-Grown Brain Cells To Play A Sort Of Video Game
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#NewsBeep #News #Technology #AU #Australia #braincells #brainorganoids #brainpower #braintissue #UCSantaCruz
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Are you interested in the spiking activity of your neuronal cultures, #brain slices, #organoids, etc.?
Check out our latest publication in STAR Protocols:
“Protocol for the enhanced analysis of electrophysiological data from high-density multi-electrode arrays with nicespike and spikeNburst”
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.104195It provides user-friendly graphical and #Python programming interfaces to spike sorting via template matching thanks to #Kilosort and #spikeinterface (@spikeinterface), and subsequent analysis of #spiking and #bursting activity, networks, and synchrony.
#neuroscience #brainscience #electrophysiology #brainOrganoids
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PhD position in neurodevelopment in the Artegiani & Hendriks group
Princess Maxima CenterSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/princess-maxima-center-27778-phd-position-in-neurodevelopment-in-the-artegiani-hendriks-group/
#3Dcellculture #brainorganoids #earlybraindevelopment #neurodevelopment #organoids #ScienceJobs #hiring #researc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/princess-maxima-center-27778-phd-position-in-neurodevelopment-in-the-artegiani-hendriks-group/?fsp_sid=5401 -
PhD position in neurodevelopment in the Artegiani & Hendriks group
Princess Maxima CenterSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/princess-maxima-center-27778-phd-position-in-neurodevelopment-in-the-artegiani-hendriks-group/
#3Dcellculture #brainorganoids #earlybraindevelopment #neurodevelopment #organoids #ScienceJobs #hiring #researc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/princess-maxima-center-27778-phd-position-in-neurodevelopment-in-the-artegiani-hendriks-group/?fsp_sid=4477 -
PhD position in neurodevelopment in the Artegiani & Hendriks group
Princess Maxima CenterSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/princess-maxima-center-27778-phd-position-in-neurodevelopment-in-the-artegiani-hendriks-group/
#3Dcellculture #brainorganoids #earlybraindevelopment #neurodevelopment #organoids #ScienceJobs #hiring #researc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/princess-maxima-center-27778-phd-position-in-neurodevelopment-in-the-artegiani-hendriks-group/?fsp_sid=3413 -
GT discusses a study torturing tiny humanoids For Science!
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First commercially available Brain Organoid computer is marketed.
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🧠💡 Dr. Paola Arlotta discusses groundbreaking neurobiology, the role of #bioethics in research, and how funders can drive both scientific and ethical progress in the first #CivicScience Funders Collaborative Advisory Series.
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@eLife Suddenly, I have to update my undergraduate lectures on neural determination. FGF8 for the win.
#neuroscience #organoids #BrainOrganoids -
What are #brainorganoids and how are they being used in neurological research for potential future treatments? These questions were asked and answered in the #DanaDiscoveryDialogues on Oct. 25th. Watch the full recording. https://dana.org/article/brain-organoids-what-can-they-do-and-not-do/ #neuroethics
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ICYMI: Watch the recording of our first Dana Discovery Dialogue on the bioethics and future of brain organoids! Learn the basics of what they are and how they’re being used to advance research on neurological diseases and dig into the ethical considerations around their use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxc6HWnJUmY
#DanaDiscoveryDialogues #neurosociety #brainorganoids -
Reminder to register for our first #DanaDiscoveryDialogues series starting today at 3pm ET! Join us for a discussion on #brainorganoids and how they can be ethically used for medical research. Register here: https://on.dana.org/dana-discovery-dialogues-organoids
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Scientists have created a new field of biocomputing called organoid intelligence, or OI. They use lab-grown brain organoids, which are clusters of neurons that mimic brain functions, as biological hardware. OI could revolutionize computing, medicine, and neuroscience by harnessing the power and efficiency of the human brain. #OI #biocomputing #brainorganoids
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How to feed mini-organs
Organoids, lab-grown mini-organs, hold the promise for better understanding of human biology. But these microscopic organ-like blobs of cells fall short of real organs in a lot of ways. For one, their size is limited to less than half of a millimeter in diameter — any larger and their internal cells start dying because nutrients from the liquid they’re grown in can’t diffuse past a certain distance. Scientists are now making lab-grown mini-organs more lifelike by adding blood vessels.
#Biomedicine #Biotechnology #Organoids #BloodVessels #BrainOrganoids #Neuroscience #Neurology
https://alleninstitute.org/news/scishots-how-to-feed-mini-organs/
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Blobs of human brain planted in rats offer new treatment hope https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/03/blobs-of-human-brain-planted-in-rats-offer-new-treatment-hope?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other