笹井芳树,日本神户理化学研究所生物学综合研究中心干细胞生物学家,凭着对干细胞的了解,已经在培养皿中培育出了一只眼睛和部分大脑。2010年12月,和往常一样在审阅科学论文的罗宾·阿里(Robin Ali)突然异常兴奋,他后来回忆说:“我边在房间里绕着跑,边挥舞着论文的手稿。”这篇论文描述了胚胎干细胞是如何长成高脚杯状的视网膜组织的。在成长的胚胎中,被称作视杯的组织形成于眼睛的后部。但这次是在培养器皿中, Sakai Yoshihito, a stem cell biologist at the Institute of Biophysics, Kobe Institute of Chemistry, Japan, has developed one eye and part of his brain in a Petri dish with his understanding of stem cells. In December 2010, as usual, Robin Ali, who reviewed science papers as usual, was suddenly overjoyed and later recalled: “I was waving the paper manuscript while I ran around the room.” " This paper describes how embryonic stem cells grow into goblet-like retinal tissue. In the growing embryo, the tissue called the optic cup is formed at the back of the eye. But this time in training vessels,