In the new study, the team used the model to demonstrate that as Alzheimer's pathology accumulates in the brain, specific types of immune cells called CT8+ T Cells surge into the brain and amplify the ...

MIT scientists have developed a new 3D human brain tissue model that could change how researchers study neurological diseases. The platform, called Multicellular Integrated Brains or miBrains, ...

3D microtissues, resembling human tissue in both form and function, have been shown to be amenable to parallelized screening approaches. However, most 3D screens rely on global endpoints such as ...

Early on in the pandemic, it became clear Covid-19 had made the leap from animals to humans. The exact chain of transmission isn't known, but the science so far suggests bats played a starring role.

A biomedical researcher combining advanced mouse models with human-based and computational approaches explains why we can’t ...

A colorful, intricate diagram circulating on social media is being presented as a groundbreaking picture of a human cell. "This photo is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using ...

Neuronal death is the indisputable endgame of Alzheimer’s disease, but what does the killing, and how? To try to solve the mystery, researchers have staged increasingly complex crime scenes in ...