Oldest Human Brain Cells Grown in Lab ‘Recorded Passage of Time’
The five-year-old mini brains developed fetal and newborn-like gene patterns, giving scientists a longer-lived model for studying human brain growth and aging.
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Five years in the laboratory for a brain organoid: it is the new record of survival documented for these tiny three-dimensional models of the human brain, obtained from cells cultivated in the laboratory. The result was reached by an international research group led by the Friulian biologist Paola Arlotta, of the University of Harvard, and is published on the [...] The article Brain Organoids, at Harvard the record of survival: five years in the…
Harvard researchers create a model that allows the brain to be studied up to previously unattainable stages of development, opening the door to more advanced studies of brain diseases and potential treatments.
In medical research, 'organoids' is the word of fashion. These are tiny three-dimensional and miniaturized replicas of human tissues that scientists create in their laboratories from pluripotent stem cells. Millimeter structures that self-organize and reproduce in Petri plates the architecture and basic functioning of the real organs. We already have organoids of a good number of organs: hearts, livers capable of segregating bile, miniature kidn…
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