Many drugs still fail after promising preclinical results, raising difficult questions about how disease is modelled in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fluorescent images illustrating cell types in brain organoids. In the past decade, lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue began ...

A contraceptive drug helps human nerve cells regenerate by unlocking their forgotten embryonic healing abilities.

Cambridge researchers created miniature brain-and-spinal-cord systems in the lab that can send signals and even trigger tiny ...

Researchers have identified a promising new therapeutic strategy for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A research team led by ...

The research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has presented a new therapeutic strategy that could improve the ...

Researchers restored NMDA receptor function by targeting SLC6A20 in autism models. In animal studies, the treatment improved ...

Animal models have served as excellent models of many aspects of human biology and disease, but they cannot mimic every part of human physiology. Scientists have recently developed a new kind of ...

Organoid cell culture has transformed cell-based assays in drug discovery and basic biology by conferring physiologic relevance to in vitro cell-based biological models. When provided with a suitable ...

In 2022 we will see brain organoids displaying dynamics that bear comparison with the complex activity patterns indicative of consciousness in humans. This will require us to rethink what counts as a ...