{"id":40678,"date":"2018-05-11T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/11\/scientists-to-grow-mini-brains-using-neanderthal-dna\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:42:49","slug":"scientists-to-grow-mini-brains-using-neanderthal-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40678","title":{"rendered":"Scientists to grow &#039;mini-brains&#039; using Neanderthal DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneticists hope comparing prehistoric and modern biology will help them understand what makes humans uniqueScientists are preparing to create \u201cminiature brains\u201d that have been genetically engineered to contain Neanderthal DNA, in an unprecedented attempt to understand how humans differ from our closest relatives.In the next few months the small blobs of tissue, known as brain organoids, will be grown from human stem cells that have been edited to contain \u201cNeanderthalised\u201d versions of several genes. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/may\/11\/scientists-to-grow-mini-brains-using-neanderthal-dna\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists to grow &#039;mini-brains&#039; using Neanderthal DNA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneticists hope comparing prehistoric and modern biology will help them understand what makes humans uniqueScientists are preparing to create \u201cminiature brains\u201d that have been genetically engineered to contain Neanderthal DNA, in an unprecedented attempt to understand how humans differ from our closest relatives.In the next few months the small blobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}