Neuroscience
In creating so-called mini-brains, how close to a real human brain is too close?
Do I exist? Do you exist? How do I know you exist?
Oct 9, 2019
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News tagged with mini-brains
Medical research
Machine learning algorithm can't distinguish these lab mini-brains from preemie babies
Brain organoids—also called mini-brains—are 3-D cellular models that represent aspects of the human brain in the laboratory. Brain organoids help researchers track human development, unravel the molecular events that ...
Aug 29, 2019
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Medical research
Cerebral organoids at the air-liquid interface generate nerve tracts with functional output
Cerebral organoids, also sometimes called mini-brains or brain organoids, have become an important and useful tool in understanding human brain development and disease. They have the potential to model brain functions, such ...
Mar 19, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
3-D-printed tumor model shows interaction with immune cells
Around a glioblastoma, a very aggressive brain tumor, cells of the human immune system help the tumor instead of attacking it. To explore the interaction of these cells, scientists of the University of Twente have created ...
Feb 8, 2019
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Cardiology
Video: Physician warns that with a stroke, 'time equals brain'
Dr. José Biller, chair of Neurology and a stroke specialist, explains that both his parents died of vascular diseases, his father of a heart attack and his mother of a brain hemorrhage. He thinks this influenced his decision ...
Aug 4, 2014
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Certain blood pressure drugs slow dementia deterioration
A class of drug, called ACE inhibitors, which are used to lower blood pressure, slow the rate of cognitive decline typical of dementia, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Jul 25, 2013
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