{"id":132996,"date":"2025-07-17T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132996"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:00:10","slug":"how-does-space-affect-the-mind-china-sends-mini-brain-to-tiangong-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132996","title":{"rendered":"How does space affect the mind? China sends \u2018mini-brain\u2019 to Tiangong to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has sent a living \u201cmini-brain\u201d \u2013 a chip the size of a credit card containing human brain cells and blood vessels \u2013 to its Tiangong space station to find out how space messes with the mind.<br \/>\nResearchers aboard the International Space Station have previously used brain cell cultures and early-stage brain organoids to study ageing and disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s.<br \/>\nBut China\u2019s experiment appears to be the first time a highly integrated brain chip featuring blood-brain barrier functions has&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3318590\/how-does-space-affect-mind-china-sends-mini-brain-tiangong-find-out?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has sent a living \u201cmini-brain\u201d \u2013 a chip the size of a credit card containing human brain cells and blood vessels \u2013 to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}