… and correlated with other problems such as microbleeds. Cells not immune from scrutiny Several other speakers focused on the brain’s immune cells, called microglia, which have a very complex role in … methods her lab has developed for culturing microglia from stemcells and then coaxing them into these many states by …
… more fundamental understanding of the biology going on in cells of people with Down syndrome, often also called trisomy … in the lab is by engineering human cell cultures from cells taken from patients. Skin cells, for instance, can be turned into stemcells, which in turn can grow into neurons or heart …