Scientists recreate blood-brain barrier defect outside the body
Using induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patients with neurodegenerative disorders, researcher recreated the blood-brain barrier inside Organ-Chips. ... Read More...
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Researchers Create Organoid of a Brain Region to Study Cognitive Disorders
Researchers have created an organoid of the thalamus, which they have fused with an organoid of the frontal cortex in order to study ASD, depression and other neuropsychiatric conditions.... Read More...
Dish Grown Human Retinas Explain How Color Vision Develops
Using human retinal tissue grown from stem cells, researchers shed light on how color vision develops. The study found thyroid hormones dictated whether the cells became blue, green or red photoreceptors.... Read More...
Neuroscience is Advancing, So How Far Off Are We From a Successful Head Transplant?
With the first head transplant scheduled for 2018, many neuroscientists are skeptical the procedure will be a success. A new article questions if scientists, and the general population, will be ready for the procedure. What does it mean for the future of mankind?... Read More...
Organoids Reveal how Deadly Brain Cancers Grow
Researchers use gene editing to generate aggressive glioblastoma multiforme brain tumors in the lab. The model, researchers say, could be used to track the progression of tumors and develop personalized therapies for patients.... Read More...
Grafted Brain Organoid Provides Insight into Neurological Disorders
Researchers have developed more sophisticated organoid models to help provide new insights into a range of neurological and psychological disorders.... Read More...
Lab-Created Mini-Brains Reveal How Growing Organ Maintains Neuronal Balance
Researchers used hPSCs to grow an organoid that produces inhibitory neurons and plays a critical role in the early development of the cortex.... Read More...
Brain Tissue From a Petri Dish
Researchers successfully transform stem cells derived from skin cells into cells that behave similarly to the human midbrain.... Read More...
Mini Brains From the Petri Dish
Researchers converted skin cells from patients with a rare congenital brain defect into pluripotent stem cells to generate brain organoids.... Read More...
Neurotoxicity Predicted by Organoids Derived from Stem Cells
Researchers have developed a new approach to predicting developmental neurotoxicity that uses stem cells to model features of the developing human brain.... Read More...