City of Hope Researchers Develop Miniature Brain Models to Study the Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease and to Test Drugs in Development
We, at City of Hope, have created a miniature brain model that uses human stem cell technology to study Alzheimers disease and, hopefully, to help find treatments for this devastating illness.
- We, at City of Hope, have created a miniature brain model that uses human stem cell technology to study Alzheimers disease and, hopefully, to help find treatments for this devastating illness.
- City of Hope researchers were able to model sporadic Alzheimers disease, the most common form of the condition, using brain organoids derived using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology.
- Because Alzheimers is a disease of age, the scientists exposed the models to serum to mimic age-associated blood-brain barrier breakdown.
- Huentelman is a leading expert in the genetic study of Alzheimers disease and was not part of this study.