Genetic confounding plus organoids

You heard it in the news this week, and we discuss it on this week’s ASF podcast. Can you make little brains in a dish then make them better by providing them a real structured live neural environment? Can these organoids integrate with a live brain and be functional in vivo? The answers are: yes! Learn more from a new study published this week. Also, what the h**l is genetic confounding and how can it address many of the controversies of genetic vs. the environment? Sometimes genes that predispose to a disorder also predispose to environmental factors leading to that disorder. There is always room for both. Here are the links I promised: https://www.fhi.no/en/studies/moba/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35793100/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05277-w