Braingeneers Seek to Answer Big Questions

Braingeneers are experimenting with cerebral organoids — structures grown in the lab that function like the brain of a developing embryo. To date, we have lacked an adequate platform to help us test the effects of changes in the brain. The goal of our work is to build such a platform and use it to not just discover, but to understand what makes us human.

Their approach will enable an unprecedented window into brain development, applying modern artificial intelligence approaches to uncover how genetic changes enhanced human brain architecture and computing capacity during primate evolution.