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Assembloids: Recreating the Brain with Sergiu Paşca

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

How do you recreate a brain circuit in a dish, and what can it unlock about our minds? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly explore the frontier of neuroscience with Sergiu Pașca, to break down stem cells, how the brain forms itself, and assembloids: self-organizing brain circuits.

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0:00.0

So Gary, you keep digging up these neuroscience topics. Yeah. They seem endless. Because we do not know yet all that we need to know.

0:08.4

This is good. I thought you were doing it because you were trying to give me a message. Which was? Something's wrong with my brain.

0:14.8

That too. Coming up on StarTalk.

0:19.8

Welcome to StarTalk.

0:22.3

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:28.3

StarTalk begins right now.

0:32.6

This is StarTalk.

0:34.8

Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

0:37.3

And today it's going to be special edition, which means we got Gary O'Reilly, Gary. This is StarTalk. Neil de Gras Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

0:39.3

And today it's going to be special edition,

0:41.5

which means we got Gary O'Reilly, Gary.

0:42.0

Hey, Neil.

0:42.7

All right, man.

0:43.1

Yeah.

0:44.0

Always good to have you.

0:45.0

Pleasure is mine.

0:45.7

Very good.

0:47.2

And Chuckie, baby.

0:47.7

Hey, man.

0:49.2

All right.

0:50.7

Not good to have me, I guess.

0:51.1

Okay.

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