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Dr Brett Kagan discusses how his team is developing brain organoids in order to harness the inherent information processing potential found in neural systems...
A cell with similar properties to an embryonic stem cell, but created in the laboratory by 'reprogramming' cells from adult tissues, such as skin cells.
Dr Brett Kagan discusses how his team is developing brain organoids in order to harness the inherent information processing potential found in neural systems...
Egg cells have been generated from male mouse cells and, once fertilised and implanted into female mice, have developed seemingly healthy, fertile offspring...
A fully human ovarian organoid has been grown in the lab for the first time, with potential applications to improve understanding and treatment of female infertility...
Neurons grown in the lab reach maturity for the first time, opening a new window into studying neurodegenerative disease...
Sertoli cells, which are crucial to sperm formation, have been recreated in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, to help study the earliest stages of sex determination...
Genetically near-identical male and female induced pluripotent stem cells have been derived from the same person for the first time...
Retinal organoids grown in a dish have shed light on the mechanisms behind a genetically inherited cause of blindness called Usher syndrome...
A gene variant which increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease may do so by decreasing production of the substance which insulates nerve cells...
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