by Manel Llado , IMBA – Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften GmbH Symmetry breaking and pattern formation in elongated cortical assembloids. Credit: Nature Methods (2024). DOI:
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Genomics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100642 Columbia University researchers have discovered how variants of the ABCA7 gene, which are common among Black Americans, increase the risk for Alzheimer’s
MRI images of people with epileptic encephalopathy. Credit: The Neuro Shortly after Kelly Cervantes’s daughter Adelaide was born, she started having terrible seizures. Doctors were unable to give her a
Huntington’s Disease organoids (right) exhibit almost no neural progenitors (red) and also show defects in cellular polarity (yelllow). These defects have been described in the literature in human fetuses with
by Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University Human brain organoids are three-dimensional neural tissues derived from stem cells that can mimic some aspects of the
In the Drosophila brain, dormant neural stem cells with protrusions rich in actin filaments. Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the