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Human brain organoids implanted into mouse cortex respond to visual stimuli for first time
NSF-funded researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted into the cortex of mice have established functional connectivity to the animals' cortex and responded to external sensory stimuli.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants ECCS 1752241, ECCS 2024776 and ECCS 1542148.]
Learn more in the Eurekalert news story Human brain organoids implanted into mouse cortex respond to visual stimuli for first time. (Date of image: 2022; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Feb. 10, 2023)
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego
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