10/12/2014 – Breakthrough Replicates Human Brain Cells for Use in Alzheimer’s Research
Oct 12, 2014
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For the first time, and to the astonishment of many of their colleagues, researchers created what they call Alzheimer’s in a Dish — a petri dish with human brain cells that develop the telltale structures of Alzheimer’s disease. In doing so, they resolved a longstanding problem of how to study Alzheimer’s and search for drugs to treat it; the best they had until now were mice that developed an imperfect form of the disease.
Read the full article at The New York Times.
