What Growing Mini Brains Has Taught Us, And What's Next

she sure looks high on something

Is it even possible to tell if a brain thats never experienced any external stimulus is conscious?

Is she that chick from big bang theory the tv show

She must have been involved in a tragic fishing accident. We have the technology to remove that fishhook from her nose.

Hi Leslie Winkle

ethicists.. ruining fun and progress since the classical ages. ^^

this is murder

I think her speech is slower.

This reminds me: R.I.P. Verne Troyer, aka "Mini Me" :(

Implanted mini brains in mice? Do you want rats of Nim? Because that's how you get rats of Nim.

Her: I like mini versions of things
Him pulls down pants
Him: how ya like that

You guys talked about this on one of the later episodes of HFS! When is it coming back?? I neeeeeeeed it!

So there are studies being done with mini brains? That doesn't sound very smart.

Screw ethics, do you know how many Americans need brains right NOW!!!




I mean literally.

I would think that it would be extremely unethical because in case they do become conscious they'll just be used for scientific experiments

So freaking cool!

Mini testes also belong to the 278 people who disliked this video.

So about the autism thing does this mean we produce more brain wirings or not I just don’t get it so someone please tell me because I want to know if I’m dumb or not

I'm guessing this technology is similar to growing meat (as food) in a lab, except that this situation is more demanding, since functionality is an issue (as opposed to flavor and nutrition)?

She looks like the elf kid lol

This is the pinnacle of science.

I think that the day we can either grow or copy (not clone, they're different) a functioning brain or something close enough to it is when the "soul" or "spirit" question is finally laid down to rest. If we can whip up a brain and that brain develops it's own agency, well I think that about settles it right? If we can whip up brain after brain and they don't really do anything that we'd consider thought, we're missing a piece to the puzzle and we haven't been looking in the right place.

"Johnny Got His Gun" scenario here maybe??

pinky and the brain is going to be real :0

OOO! I can't bear it when you talk in the back of your throat, big turnoff.

I like your pronunciation of microglia better than the one I was taught. (MI"-cro-GLI'-a)

One of the guys I work with us named Brian. He is pretty smart so I just call him Brain. Also good reference to autism. I have autism and epilepsy and if love to know more brain science of Autism, so a video on Autism and other conditions like it would be amazing. Thanks SciShow.

interesting topic, but that nose pigring distracts waaay too much to enjoy the video -.-

Very interesting!

I particularly like that Olivia describes both the achievements and the challenges. This gives much clearer idea of the edge that research have reached and has the effect to involve the viewer (at least me) much more.
Just as a counter-example: the way many theoretical scientists describe their theories (which often are barely more than an educated guess based on complex math) as something established and almost confirmed is a bit off-putting - not necessarily in very negative way, but simply because they fail to involve the people in their field (or at best say something like: "With high-school math skills you can understand what I'm talking about with just two years of intense studying of high-maths" :)) No wonder String-theory failed to produce anything concrete yet!

Great job Olivia!

Dear Science: Please stop believing that consciousness is somehow created by the brain. It's not. This myth is no longer even debatable.

Is it possible to put all the different tiny organs together and create a tiny homunculus ?

How can a brain with no body feel or sense much of anything? Most people probably don't think about this, but the concept of self is intrinsically linked to having a body. It may not be possible to have an individual consciousness without a body, or at the very least is would not remotely resemble what we feel as fully formed organisms with bodies.

I had to turn on CC and mute this video because her voice is so annoying.  Every sentence ends on a lazy sounding low note... sounds like she wasn't preparing for the phrase construction (stitching sentences together) editing that would follow in the editing phase of production.

no such thing as what's amax, or raisex or not, ask any nmw, any be any amax

She has the coolest voice

Seriously, ethicists are hampering science and are a great hindrance to human progress.

Satanic.

The way I feel some mornings I might be better off with one of those mini-brains; it might work better than my own.

So eventually we’re gonna just learn how to recreate ourselves

You look like younger amy

Stop saying we you didnt create it geez makes it seem like you're taking credit for all the scientists hard work

Put it on computer

Brains in vats

If the mini brain did have blood vessels wouldn’t it need to be connected to a mini heart to pump it

Great concise presentation, much appreciated!👍

That's not so great! I grew mini testes as well!

Oh wow thats my brain

I'm sure they made a super brain already they are always 100 steps ahead of what they choose to let us know.

Using 3D printing nanomaterials that'll allow the arrangement of a scaffolding structure to suffice will give way for circulation of oxygenated water/nutrients that will in effect allow neural organoids to grow even LARGER to the capacity of engineering an entire brain.

Cool