Brain organoids to help identify therapies for neurodegenerative disease
Miniature brain-like structures grown in the laboratory are being used to uncover mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and to screen for effective treatments...
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.
Miniature brain-like structures grown in the laboratory are being used to uncover mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and to screen for effective treatments...
Brain organoids grown in the lab can develop primitive eyes called optic cups, containing key cell types that are able to respond to light...
A mutated protein associated with Alzheimer's disease may trigger the death of brain cells known to be vulnerable in frontotemporal dementia...
An in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) breakthrough has been achieved as mouse stem cells have been used to create egg cells that have successfully developed into live mice when used in IVF...
Germline cells seem to reset their biological clocks around the time of embryo implantation, not when generating gametes, as previously thought...
Stem cell models may help investigate COVID-19 and other lung diseases...
Is an international conversation on the 14-day rule needed in the light of the development of iBlastoids?...
Over two weeks in March, four teams reported the self-assembly from stem cells of structures resembling human embryos...
by Emma Green
Brain organoids, grown in the lab from stem cells, have been shown to develop in-line with the human brain...
In the 16 December issue of Nature, researchers reported that the addition of eight transcription factors to pluripotent stem cells converted them into a primary oocyte-like cell...
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