[quote]Research team say tiny brain could be used to test drugs and study diseases, but scientific peers urge caution as data on breakthrough kept under wraps[/quote]
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[quote]An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State University. The team behind the feat hope the brain could transform our understanding of neurological disease.
Though not conscious the miniature brain, which resembles that of a five-week-old foetus, could potentially be useful for scientists who want to study the progression of developmental diseases. It could also be used to test drugs for conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, since the regions they affect are in place during an early stage of brain development.[/quote]
[quote]For now, the team say they are focusing on using the brain for military research, to understand the effect of post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.[/quote]
[url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/18/first-almost-fully-formed-human-brain-grown-in-lab-researchers-claim]Read more here[/url]
We truly live in the future.
Imagine running experiments on this thing and then one day testing it with an artificial body, which it will then use to have its revenge on us for all the horrible things we did to it
As someone whose had neuroscience courses and worked in a neuroscience lab, to put it bluntly this shit is like, really exciting. I wonder how reproduce-able this will be, and its implications for refinement.
Whats it thinking
[QUOTE=can man;48531002]Whats it thinking[/QUOTE]
Without any senses I wonder if it does think anything, this is some deep shit.
What happens if you eat it?
[QUOTE=FUCK MY ASS;48531019]What happens if you eat it?[/QUOTE]
You gain its power. And prion diseases.
[QUOTE=woolio1;48531058]You gain its power. And prion diseases.[/QUOTE]
It was probably grown in a sterile environment so I highly doubt it
I can hear a shitstorm brewing
[QUOTE=WarriorWounds;48531016]Without any senses I wonder if it does think anything, this is some deep shit.[/QUOTE]
It represents just a few week old brain, doubt there's any activity in it at all that allows it to think.
Anybody else feel like we reached the bounds of what we currently consider Sci-Fi?
Kinda depressing that Sci-Fi hasn't been changing to accommodate the present.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;48531088]It represents just a few week old brain, doubt there's any activity in it at all that allows it to think.[/QUOTE]
Yeah "think" is definitely a subjective overstatement, what I meant is what kinds of activity it has compared to natural fetal brains.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;48531088]It represents just a few week old brain, doubt there's any activity in it at all that allows it to think.[/QUOTE]
pretty much, before 24 weeks (and beginning at 12) the brain only emits some electrical signals. This brain wouldn't even be capable of doing that.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;48531122]pretty much, before 24 weeks (and beginning at 12) the brain only emits some electrical signals. This brain wouldn't even be capable of doing that.[/QUOTE]
Well, any collection of neurons can emit electrical signals, electricity just represents activity, all cells have "electricity" in the basic sense of just exchanging positively and negatively charged sodium and potassium ions with their environment. The interesting thing is what that activity represents, like in the article they are talking about the implications of storing traumatic imagery on this young undeveloped brain.
Should we actually fully form a mature brain, would it potentially be able to become conscious?
[QUOTE=Superkilll307;48531097]
Kinda depressing that Sci-Fi hasn't been changing to accommodate the present.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/"]Black Mirror[/URL] is probably as close to the present as you can get. Nothing in that show seems that far away from actually happening.
[QUOTE=can man;48531002]Whats it thinking[/QUOTE]
"Jet fuel can't melt steel beams"
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[QUOTE=Superkilll307;48531097]Anybody else feel like we reached the bounds of what we currently consider Sci-Fi?
[B]Kinda depressing that Sci-Fi hasn't been changing to accommodate the present.[/B][/QUOTE]
Go read The Culture series by Iain M. Banks.
[QUOTE=benbb;48531151][URL="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/"]Black Mirror[/URL] is probably as close to the present as you can get. Nothing in that show seems that far away from actually happening.[/QUOTE]
That episode about [sp]that woman's husband dying and having that.. thing.. replace him, was kind of creepy. [/sp] Very great series though. They need more seasons.
[QUOTE=HookerVomit;48531224]That episode about [sp]that woman's husband dying and having that.. thing.. replace him, was kind of creepy. [/sp] Very great series though. They need more seasons.[/QUOTE]
I didn't get past that first episode.
[QUOTE=Shadow801;48531268]I didn't get past that first episode.[/QUOTE]
You have to watch them. Its slow, but all of the episodes are worth it. As ben said, everything in that series seems very near future. Its basically like a 22nd century Twilight Zone.
[QUOTE=Superkilll307;48531097]Anybody else feel like we reached the bounds of what we currently consider Sci-Fi?
Kinda depressing that Sci-Fi hasn't been changing to accommodate the present.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean? I read a lot of sci fi books and novels and they directly depend on the real world and its science
like, the earliest sci fi was about flying to the moon using a big cannon
and a lot of modern stuff is based on most recent scientific discoveries, just read some of Peter Watts' stuff
if you grow a full-sized fully functioning brain and then destroy it, is it murder?
[QUOTE=meppers;48531386]if you grow a full-sized fully functioning brain and then destroy it, is it murder?[/QUOTE]
yes
I wonder what the anti abortion people think about people creating artificial fetal brains to fill them full of traumatic imagery :v:
Reminds me of the "GROW A BRIAN MORAN!" picture I saw not long ago.
We actually can grow one now....
So what happens if you were to grow one of these brains to maturity?
Would it be sentient? Who would it belong to? Would it be Human?
Is it Turing complete?
This is really cool, can't wait till they can test medicine with this or maybe cure disorders !
We truly live in the future!
What I do wonder: since its the week of a 5 week old fetus (Resembels it), does it have any sense such as that it should do anything? Such as that it knows it should have oxygen and so on?
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