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Maina Bitar

2 papers in the library · publishing 2018-2020

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Are Brain Organoids Equivalent to Philosophical Zombies?

Preprints.org April 3, 2020 Maina Bitar preprint

Along just over a century of research we moved from learning how to cultivate tissues in a dish to grasping the concepts for creating an entire brain in a vat. As we approach the divisive moment in which we can first detect signs of awareness in such artificially developed organoids, we need to lay foundation for what lays ahead. It is crucial that ethical, legal and moral implications of...

THC exposure of human iPSC neurons impacts genes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.

Translational Psychiatry April 25, 2018 Boris Guennewig, Maina Bitar, Ifeanyi Obiorah et al.

There is a strong association between cannabis use and schizophrenia but the underlying cellular links are poorly understood. Neurons derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) offer a platform for investigating both baseline and dynamic changes in human neural cells. Here, we exposed neurons derived from hiPSCs to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and identified diagnosis-specific...