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… the brain suppress beta amyloid production and invigorate cells responsible for destroying the plaques. Further … amyloid plaques that are suspected to be harmful to brain cells and to interfere with normal brain function. Previous … Foundation, a Barbara J. Weedon Fellowship, the New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Award, the National Institutes …

… new insights into the nature of diseases that cause brain cells to die, but also described promising new treatment … potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease in which brain cells called astrocytes can be converted into neurons in a … mice, negatively impacting the proliferation of neural stem cells and therefore their ability to produce new neurons …

… 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 stem cells and then coaxing them into these many states by …

… know exactly how cannabidiol quiets the misfiring brain cells of patients with the seizure disorder. Understanding …

… 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 stem cells, which in turn can grow into neurons or heart …

… yeast screens in human brain cell cultures derived from stem cells. Called the “ Pathway to Independence Award ” the K99 …

… hard to show how this works, all the way from the immune cells and molecules to receptors in the brain, and how those …

… presenting new insights into how cortical circuits and cells represent sensory information and use it to guide … which appear especially prevalent in neural progenitor cells, occur genomewide and result in substantial differences … Yuan-Ta Lin showed how minibrains grown from trisomy stem cells vs. disomy ones have smaller diameters after 30 …