Artificial human brain being built in a lab | COSMOS magazine: "BIRMINGHAM: Researchers have developed an artificial bit of human brain to help them study Alzheimer's and other diseases, a huge improvement over animal models.
Mike Coleman and his team from Aston University, Birmingham, have developed artificial brain tissue that responds to some chemicals like human brains do. Their findings were presented at the British Festival of Science in Birmingham.
According to Coleman, the new tissue is better than using dead brain cells from taken humans or lab rats. 'One is dead and the other is different,' he explained. 'It's better to have a human-sourced platform that's alive.'"
Monday, September 27, 2010
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