{"id":140289,"date":"2022-06-08T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lab-grown-mini-brains-could-help-find-treatments-for-alzheimers-and-other-diseases"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:02:17","slug":"lab-grown-mini-brains-could-help-find-treatments-for-alzheimers-and-other-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lab-grown-mini-brains-could-help-find-treatments-for-alzheimers-and-other-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown mini-brains could help find treatments for Alzheimer\u2019s and other diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-mini-brains-could-help-find-treatments-for-alzheimers-and-other-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To assess whether a compound holds promise for treating a disease, researchers usually begin by studying its use in animals. This allows us to see if the compound has a chance of curing the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Animal models, however, rarely reproduce all aspects of a disease. The alternative is to represent the disease in cell cultures. While at first glance, Petri dishes look quite different from a person with a disease, the reality could be quite different when you look at them more closely.<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s has been cured more than <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/trc2.12179\">400 times in laboratories<\/a>. How then can we still consider Alzheimer\u2019s to be incurable? The reason is that it has only been cured <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111%2Fjoim.12191\">in animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To assess whether a compound holds promise for treating a disease, researchers usually begin by studying its use in animals. This allows us to see if the compound has a chance of curing the disease. Animal models, however, rarely reproduce all aspects of a disease. The alternative is to represent the disease in cell cultures. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}