Can Human Brain Cells Make an Animal Human?

 

Father Nicanor Austriaco, a molecular biologist and Dominican Catholic priest, joins Trending with Timmerie: 
Episode Guide

  • Dark humor everything becomes a joke – nothing is serious (2:15)
  • Scientists are growing human brain tissue and implanting it in animals. Could it become conscious? (24:13)
  • De-Extinction Breakthrough How AI is bringing the extinct Dodo back to life(45:17)

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Lab-grown brain organoids

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03048-5?linkId=63942662

De-Extinction Breakthrough: How AI Just Brought the Dodo 1 Step Closer to Reality

https://www.inc.com/divya-bhardwaj/de-extinction-breakthrough-how-ai-just-brought-the-dodo-1-step-closer-to-reality/91416856 

 

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