Daily: The Artificial Brain and What It Means

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In a groundbreaking study, a team of scientists at the University of Dusseldorf have grown mini brains, each with their own sets of “eyes” that can detect light. Dr Jay Gopalakrishnan, the leader of the project, spoke to Alex Andreou about the extraordinary research going on the field of these “organoids”, miniature versions of organs that scientists can grow in the lab from stem cells, and where this remarkable study could lead us in the years ahead. “In the last 10 years my lab has made brains, livers, lungs… every human organ type has been made from stem cells” “My guess is that in 10 years you’ll be able to generate your own cell type for transplants” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.1	Last month my curiosity was peaked by an article in the week entitled Lab-Made Brain develops its own eyes and came complete with an image
1:26.7	straight out of an 80s Frank Henenlotter horror film. I am quite used to tablet it sensationalizing research but the week is a quite reliable source
1:36.0	so I looked into it and it turns out that okay they're not exactly mini brains and the optic
1:41.9	instruments they developed are not exactly eyes, but the story was a fair
1:46.2	reflection of the extraordinary research currently going on in the field of organoids,
1:52.2	and the image was real.
1:54.0	Some obsessive research later, I said to the team,
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