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I'm like the full-sized version of an organ-on-a-chip. Brain organoids, veganism, feminism, pragmatic progressivism, sometimes grad school & parenting. Critics rave: "The least annoying bad takes I've seen all week"
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imho the point of trying to recapitulate aspects of ASD in organoids isn't to "cure" ASD, or even to understand ASD. The point is that autistic brains work differently in diverse ways, such that imitating the perturbations associated with ASDs can help identify key events in human neurodevelopment.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Very neat concept—and a great illustration of the experimental & moral case for brain organoids. There's just no reason why in 2024, characterizing the effects of defined mechanical forces on living neural tissue should require guesstimating how hard to hit a rat on the head with a steel implement

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Many vegan cheeses are tasty, but almost none are actually "cheeses": (plant) milk solids that have been curdled, pressed, & ripened. Closest common approximation of actual vegan cheese is soy cheese, ie tofu—outside Asia, mostly only available as a plain "fresh cheese" 1/3

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

My birchbark brains were a hit at the lab gift exchange! #BrainArt #neuroart #neurodev #Neuroskyence

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Digital mockup for lab gift exchange art is done! Different colors represent germinal zones/cortical plate, basal nuclei anlage, choroid plexus, and other brain parenchyma. #devneuro followers—can you catch any mistakes before I start cutting out the pieces?

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Kudos to the Camp/Theis/Treutlein labs for compiling this amazing resource for the field! Particularly interesting addition since the preprint: comparison to fetal data beyond the first trimester, finding that organoids start modeling the second right on schedule but also retain early signatures

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

The NIH has issued 2⃣ #funding opportunities to develop #microphysiologicalsystems (organs-on-chips/tissue chips) for human #neuroscience research. 🧠 The use of non-human tissues will not be considered. Take note of the deadlines below! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... #NAMs #OOCs

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

life before ImageJ!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Some life scientists are defensive about calls to replace animal research, but polls show it's what the citizens who fund us want. With antivaxxers in power & trust in sci falling, we should jump at the chance to show we share popular values by incorporating & talking up more non-animal methods

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

2015 was a simpler time

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Making my first single-cell RNA sequencing library and it's an oddly spiritual experience. Years of hopes and dreams concentrated into one drop of clear liquid, purified over and over, invisibly shimmering with millions of precious data points like a pearl in Indra's net

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky! I work on stem-cell-based alternatives to animal models of human brain development, have many opinions both correct and spicy, and sometimes take pretty pictures

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments