by rmiyatsu | Nov 25, 2025 | Featured News, News, Publications
By Emily Cerf Read on the UC Santa Cruz Newscenter Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the world around us?...
by rmiyatsu | Nov 12, 2025 | News, Publications
In a perspective article for Patterns, Braingeneers researcher Kennith Kosik explains what brain organoids are and what they could become. While organoids raise questions about whether they could become conscious, Kosik emphasizes that current technologies fall far...
by rmiyatsu | Nov 12, 2025 | News
The ethical issues surrounding human brain organoid research are becoming more pressing as technology to generate these organoids improves. In an article for Science, Braingeneers member Henry Greely argues that it is critical that we establish an international...
by rmiyatsu | Oct 20, 2025 | Featured News, News
October 20, 2025 By Emily Cerf Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ability to reason, problem solve, and control machines—but could tiny models of brain tissue grown in the lab do the same, given the right conditions? That question will be...
by rmiyatsu | Mar 31, 2025 | News, Publications
Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists show that neurons are capable of changing from one type to another March 31, 2025 By Emily Cerf Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and...
by rmiyatsu | Feb 3, 2025 | News
By Emily Cerf A $10.3 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state’s stem cell agency, will fund a multi-UC effort to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders. One in five people in the U.S. experience a neuropsychiatric...
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