Beginnings in the Brain: Complex Waves from Cortical Organoids Model Early Human Brain Development

Video Aug 30, 2019 | Taken from University of California Television

A detailed overview of a study conducted by Alysson Muotri's lab at the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program which found complex network signaling developing in human cortical organoids that appear to recapitulate fetal brain development, offering an in-vitro model to study functional development of human neuronal networks.

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