Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that 'see' light

By Clare Wilson

A encephalon organoid with eye-like optic cups

Elke Gabriel

Small blobs of quality encephalon grown successful a crockery person been coaxed into forming rudimentary eyes, which respond to airy by sending signals to the remainder of the encephalon tissue.

The pairs of eye-like structures make tissues akin to those successful existent eyes, including a circular lens, which usually focuses an image, and a retina, the spot of insubstantial astatine the backmost of the oculus that senses light. In a way, the encephalon insubstantial is “seeing” light, says Jay Gopalakrishnan astatine Heinrich Heine …