Sentence examples for miniature brain from inspiring English sources
The SCN looks like a miniature brain, with two hemispheres, inside the hypothalamus.
Though not conscious the miniature brain, which resembles that of a five-week-old foetus, could potentially be useful for scientists who want to study the progression of developmental diseases.
The honeybee is a useful model for the study of complex visual-problem solving by a miniature brain [1] [3].
We show that the miniature brain of honeybees initially demonstrate a low tolerance for novel views of complex shapes (e.g. human faces), but can learn to recognise novel views of stimuli by interpolating between or 'averaging' views they have experienced.
The stem cells are coaxed using chemical triggers to become neurons, which spontaneously clump together and self-organise into miniature brain-like structures that grow to a few millimetres in diameter.
Insects possess miniature brains but exhibit a sophisticated behavioral repertoire.
Miniature brains that show electrical activity akin to "a primitive type of thinking" could revolutionise how some drugs are tested and reduce the need for animals in research, according to scientists who have developed the structures.
Scientists are preparing to create "miniature brains" that have been genetically engineered to contain Neanderthal DNA, in an unprecedented attempt to understand how humans differ from our closest relatives.
Scientists first developed miniature brains in test tubes in December 2013, but Hartung said that his team has managed to standardise the new "mini-brains" – meaning they can grow hundreds of uniform brain cultures in a single petri dish, rather than a few cultures each grown according to their distinct genetic codes.
Sloths are certainly not insomniacs, but a new miniature brain-recording device shows that, in nature, the animals snooze a respectable 9.6 hours per day.
His team can now derive these miniature brains from both embryonic and iPs cells, raising the possibility of mimicking specific neural diseases with patient-derived cells.
