Human nerve-cell tissue engineered into a network
February 27, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers engineered living human nerve cells into three-dimensional neural networks with the potential to survive transplantation.
Four neurons that survived months in culture
In previous work with rat neurons, the researchers demonstrated a new way to engineer nerve structures, or constructs, in culture. The new study uses the same method with human neurons, which survived at least three months in culture while maintaining the ability to signal.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine News Release
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