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. 2016 May 17;113(20):5461-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605358113.

News Feature: Better models for brain disease

Helen H Shen
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News Feature: Better models for brain disease

Helen H Shen. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Neurons such as these, derived from the induced pluripotent stem cells of a Parkinson's disease patient, are on the forefront of efforts to improve models for brain disease. Image courtesy of Cedric Bardy and Fred H. Gage (The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA).
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To study brain disorders in living human tissue, researchers grew this cerebral organoid from stem cells derived from a healthy donor's skin sample. In this cross-section, the neurons are green, progenitors are red, and nuclei are blue. Image courtesy of Madeline A. Lancaster and Juergen A. Knoblich. Reproduced from ref. , with permission from Macmillan Publishers: Nature, copyright (2013).
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