How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab | Sergiu P. Pasca

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Neuroscientist Sergiu P. Pasca has made it his life's work to understand how the human brain builds itself -- and what makes it susceptible to disease. In a mind-blowing talk laden with breakthrough science, he shows how his team figured out how to grow "organoids" and what they call brain "assembloids" -- self-organizing clumps of neural tissue derived from stem cells that have shown the ability to form circuits -- and explains how these miniature parts of the nervous system are bringing us closer to demystifying the brain.

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0:06.5	Neuroscientist Sergio Pascar has made it his life's work to understand what makes our
0:11.7	brains unique and also what makes them susceptible to disease.
0:16.0	In his Ted 2022 talk, he shares how he figured out how to form brain circuits in a dish.
0:21.7	It's a fascinating way to understand how our brains work and how to help them heal, too.
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1:38.2	How does the human brain build itself?
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