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Stem cells used to replace neurons in patient with Parkinson’s disease europeanpharmaceuticalreview
May 20, 2020
A team has revealed that a patient who received induced pluripotent stem cells to replace lost dopaminergic neurons has reduced symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
New insight into genetic schizophrenia risk expresspharma
April 28, 2020
For the first time, research reported by the team in the journal Cell Reports, has shown that the 16p11.2 duplication impacts on a number of different inhibitory neuron types, neurons that use the neurotransmitter GABA, in brain areas dysfunctional in sch
Blue Brain Project clarifies neurons’ structure and role in disease pharmaceutical-technology
April 11, 2019
Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)’s Blue Brain Project has used a mathematical algorithm to distinguish the shape and structures of pyramidal cells...
How neurons fend off Alzheimer’s with a cellular broom that clears the toxic tau protein fiercebiotech
December 18, 2018
When the protein tau builds up inside the neurons of the brain, the cells become impaired and eventually die in a process that’s been implicated in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.