organoids

Important Advance in Brain Organoid Technology Provides Platform to Study Pathology and Test Therapies for Autism, Schizophrenia, Dementia, Cerebral Palsy, Among Others
A team led by a BBRF grantee has reported another major advance in efforts to study how the human brain develops and how various dysfunctions and pathologies, especially those occurring before birth,… Read More
For the First Time, Researchers Model a Crucial Phase of Early Human Brain Development—the Forging of Connections Across the Developing Spinal Cord
A great deal remains to be discovered about how the human brain develops into its mature form, starting with its origins in a tube-like structure that emerges early in embryonic development called… Read More
Using Stem-Cell Technology, Researchers Succeed in ‘Growing’ a Working Blood-Brain Barrier
Researchers co-led by 2016 BBRF Young Investigator Ethan Lippmann, Ph.D., report they have succeeded in “building” vascular tissue that functions like the brain’s crucial protective membrane, called… Read More