Researchers at Brown University, located in Providence, USA, created a laboratory brain, in which they could then grow a network of blood vessels. Now they hope that with the help of this achievement they will be able to better study many of the processes occurring in the human body.
Experts plan to use the resulting model to study some diseases, including strokes and concussions, although at the moment the artificial brain with blood vessels has problems: the network of blood vessels in the real brain is much denser, and the laboratory brain has no blood inside the vessels. However, due to the fact that it has become more realistic, many of the research conducted with its help will become even more effective.
“It's great that we were able to grow blood vessels in our test sample,” says Diane Hoffman-Kim, associate professor in the Department of Medical Science and Technology. our artificial model."
Scientists developed the mini-brain itself back in 2015. Despite the fact that it is much simpler in structure than the present, it is quite easy and inexpensive to manufacture.
VYACHESLAV LARIONOV