{"id":176184,"date":"2023-11-16T21:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-study-reveals-the-critical-role-of-microglia-in-human-brain-development"},"modified":"2023-11-16T21:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T03:23:16","slug":"new-study-reveals-the-critical-role-of-microglia-in-human-brain-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-study-reveals-the-critical-role-of-microglia-in-human-brain-development","title":{"rendered":"New study reveals the critical role of microglia in human brain development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-reveals-the-critical-role-of-microglia-in-human-brain-development2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers used human stem cells to create a model of early brain development \u2014 organoids.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Super-resolution image of human stem cell-derived Microglia cells with labeled mitochondria (yellow), nucleus (magenta), and actin filaments (cyan). These Microglia cells help in the maturation of neurons in human brain organoid models. Photo credit: A*STAR\u2019s SIgN<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists has uncovered the vital role of microglia, the immune cells in the brain that acts as its dedicated defense team, in early human brain development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers used human stem cells to create a model of early brain development \u2014 organoids. Super-resolution image of human stem cell-derived Microglia cells with labeled mitochondria (yellow), nucleus (magenta), and actin filaments (cyan). These Microglia cells help in the maturation of neurons in human brain organoid models. Photo credit: A*STAR\u2019s SIgN An international team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176184","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\/176184","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}