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  • Vanderbilt University

    First step toward model brain: turning iPSCs into working blood-brain barrier

    Vanderbilt University engineering researchers took a major step toward building a “brain in a dish:” They cultured induced pluripotent stem cells into a successful three-dimensional blood-brain barrier model. The future of drug testing and disease research lies in creating organoids, or models of human organs, to determine efficacy and potency… Read More

    Feb. 21, 2019