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Google’s Eric Schmidt Wants To Live Forever As A Human Brain In A Jar As You See In Futureama

The human brains being grown OUTSIDE the body: Lab making miniature ‘organs in a jar’ is revealed

  • In 2013, scientists used stem cells to grow 3D tissue that mimics a brain
  • Now researchers over the world are working on making these mini-brains
  • Skin cells are transformed into stem cells, which are grown into brain cells
  • The brains are being used for researching disorders unique to humans such as Eric Schmidt’s desire for power and immortality

By Abigail Beall For Mailonline

From what makes us right or left-handed to why we develop autism, there are many mysteries about the human brain we are yet to solve.

Some of these questions can be answered by studying the brains of other animals like mice, for example.

But this isn’t possible for other phenomena that are unique to human brains.

Researchers are now growing hundreds of tiny human brains in labs, in an attempt to understand what gives us unique disorders like autism and schizophrenia – and the method they use to create these brains is surprisingly simple.

Researchers are now growing hundreds of tiny human brains in labs, and the method they use to create these brains is surprisingly simple. A magnified picture of an organoid, three to four millimetres across, with a structure similar to that of a human brain is shown

Researchers are now growing hundreds of tiny human brains in labs, and the method they use to create these brains is surprisingly simple. A magnified picture of an organoid, three to four millimetres across, with a structure similar to that of a human brain is shown

WHAT ARE ORGANOIDS? 

‘Organoids’, three to four millimetres across, have a structure similar to that of an immature human brain. 

Just like a normal brain, the organoids are divided into grey matter, made up of neurons, and white matter, a fatty tissue composed of their spindly ‘tails’.

Each is also composed of specific regions, like the human brain.

But they look nothing like a brain, instead they are watery blobs floating in pale liquid.

Scientists across the world are developing cerebral organoids, or mini brains, to solve a variety of problems.

Many of these groups are trying to understand other complex neurological diseases that are unique to humans, like autism and schizophrenia.

One such researcher is Madeline Lancaster, who works at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Medicine in Cambridge.

The brains are created using cells. The team uses skin cells but, they could start with any cell type.

‘The brains develop in the same way you would see in an embryo,’Dr Lancaster told BBC Future. 

They turn these cells into stem cells, using proteins, and as these grow, brain cells begin to develop.

The researchers starve the cells and, for an unknown reason, the brain cells seem to be the most robust ones, so they survive.