Lab-grown brain tissue offers new way to test how viruses damage neurons

Researchers have developed human brain organoids from stem cells that can model how viruses and toxins harm neural tissue—potentially accelerating drug development and reducing animal testing. The advance could help pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms screen compounds faster for neurodegenerative diseases linked to infection or environmental exposure.

Originaltitel: iPSC-Derived 3D Brain Organoids as Next-generation Platforms to Study Viral and Toxicant-associated Neurodegeneration