The man who grew eyes. Growing nerve tissue and organs is a sci-fi dream. I met the pioneering researcher who grew eyes and brain cells

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Back in Kobe, the researchers at the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis is growing tissues and organs using an altogether different approach, which doesn’t use scaffolds. Remarkably, they have found that embryonic stem cells can organise themselves into highly complex three-dimensional structures when guided in the right direction. Using a specially developed technique, the team has already coaxed embryonic stem cells to become partial pituitary glands and even bits of brains. Their greatest achievement to date is growing partial embryonic eyes, complete with retinal tissue containing light-sensitive cells, in the hope of developing a new stem cell-based treatment for various diseases that cause blindness.

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Ta Crazy, bookmarked.

Was this a Croatian study?

>the team has already coaxed embryonic stem cells to become partial pituitary glands and even bits of brains.

I see a brave new world here. Massive brains grown from stem cells….

Sidney Bradford, initially known as “SB”, who lost hist sight at 10 months and had is restored at 52 years. He was said to be disappointed with what he saw.

The human visual system is not fully developed at 10 months. Who knows what sort of vision he was getting. Much of the ‘wiring’ for binocular co-ordination and even for proper focussing develops over the toddler years, and as far as we know it is at least partially vision driven. You have to have good images or the brain just says “pfft! is that all you do! I’ll turn you off!” That is how you get amblyopia (lazy eye). I’m not surprised he suffered a disconnect.