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🗓️ 22 August 2024
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Today, you’ll learn about a new method to cryopreserve parts of the brain for later use, the personality changes that happen after organ transplants, and how fungicides cause dangerous fungi to self-destruct.
Cryopreservation
Personality Transplant
Fungal Azoles
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0:37.5 | Today you'll learn about a new method to cryopreserve parts of the brain for later use, the personality changes that happen after organ |
0:45.0 | transplants, and how fungicides cause dangerous fungi to self-destruct. |
0:50.2 | All right, let's get smarter. Researchers have found a new way to effectively cryopreserve brain tissue. |
0:56.7 | Wow, okay, so this is every sci-fi lover's dream come true. |
1:00.0 | Is this a way to basically freeze our brains and then I don't know wake them up in some |
1:04.0 | distant future? So no not that not that exactly this is no less revolutionary but for a very |
1:11.9 | different reason and it all comes down to something |
1:14.5 | called brain organoids. Okay if I remember correctly organoids are kind of like |
1:19.7 | models. Yeah you're on the right track for sure. So any neuroscientists studying anything having to do with brain function will at some point need brain organoids. |
1:29.0 | Generally, these are models derived from human stem cells that can kind of mimic aspects of brain development. |
1:35.0 | Sometimes they're called mini brains and one of the coolest things about them is that they are 3D. |
1:40.4 | Okay, wait, isn't all tissue 3D? Well, technically, yeah, but no. So most animal |
1:47.8 | models or cell cultures are basically two-dimensional. Think about them |
1:51.6 | resting peacefully and flatly on say a microscope slide. |
1:56.0 | Oh, okay, right. Using mini brains or organoids opens up huge opportunities in the research of things like brain development and |
2:04.4 | neurodevelopmental disorders like autism or schizophrenia. |
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