Brain on a chip to model complexity of AD (or attempt I suppose)
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:07 am
In my humble opinion, this one seems rather far out there, but who knows?
First paragraph: The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in the brain including its blood vessels, has proven difficult to recreate in the lab. With a new $5.6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory will develop a multicellular integrated "brain-on-a-chip" to model the disease's complexity with novel technologies, providing a powerful testbed for personalized disease and treatment research. https://phys.org/wire-news/331556145/mi ... -chip.html
The smart ass part of me wants to ask if they will serve dip with that chip? OK, yes, I need my first cup of caffeine.
First paragraph: The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in the brain including its blood vessels, has proven difficult to recreate in the lab. With a new $5.6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory will develop a multicellular integrated "brain-on-a-chip" to model the disease's complexity with novel technologies, providing a powerful testbed for personalized disease and treatment research. https://phys.org/wire-news/331556145/mi ... -chip.html
The smart ass part of me wants to ask if they will serve dip with that chip? OK, yes, I need my first cup of caffeine.