Antidepressant harms baby neurons in lab-grown ‘mini-brains’
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 08:20
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have demonstrated the use of stem-cell-derived “mini-brains” to detect harmful side effects of a common drug on the developing brain. Mini-brains are miniature human brain models, developed with human cells and barely visible to the human eye, whose cellular mechanisms mimic those of the developing human […]