The idea of growing functioning human brain-like tissues in a dish has always sounded far-fetched, even to researchers in the field. Towards the future goal, a Japanese and French research team has developed a technique for ...
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Brain organoids, though often referred to as "mini brains," are not truly human brains. But the concerns over these lab-grown brain tissues, especially when they are developed from human fetal tissues, can be very human indeed.
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Researchers have shown that dangerous cysts, which form over time in polycystic kidney disease (PKD), can be prevented by a single normal copy of a defective gene. This means the potential exists that scientists could one ...
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Clinicians often find limited success in treating patients with traumatic brain injury, a condition long linked to contact sports and military services. A new study, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, may offer new ...
Apr 4, 2024
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Organoids, formed as intricate three-dimensional (3D) structures, hold the capacity to originate from a wide array of cellular sources, ranging from embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to ...
Mar 25, 2024
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The Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (CEA-Irig), CEA-Leti, and fellow European and Canadian institutes and researchers have demonstrated the complete vascularization of organoids on a microfluidic chip at ...
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Pancreatic cancer carries the highest mortality rate of all major cancers and is projected to become the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States by 2030. It is especially difficult to treat because ...
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Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) is a rare type of congenital enteropathy in infants that causes devastating diarrhea and an inability to absorb food. Infants can lose liters of fluid a day, become severely dehydrated, ...
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With advances in neuroscience and the development of new technologies, new ethical considerations have emerged. This is particularly true for human brain organoids, which are three-dimensional tissues grown from stem cells ...
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The brain is typically depicted as a complex web of neurons sending and receiving messages. But neurons only make up half of the human brain. The other half—roughly 85 billion cells—are non-neuronal cells called glia.
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