{"id":213043,"date":"2025-05-02T01:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chimeric-brain-models-can-help-bridge-the-gap-between-animal-studies-and-human-neurological-disorders"},"modified":"2025-05-02T01:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:12:49","slug":"chimeric-brain-models-can-help-bridge-the-gap-between-animal-studies-and-human-neurological-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chimeric-brain-models-can-help-bridge-the-gap-between-animal-studies-and-human-neurological-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Chimeric brain models can help bridge the gap between animal studies and human neurological disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chimeric-brain-models-can-help-bridge-the-gap-between-animal-studies-and-human-neurological-disorders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A specialized model used by researchers is becoming a valuable tool for studying human brain development, diseases and potential treatments, according to a team of scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Known as chimeric brain models, these laboratory tools provide a unique way to understand human brain functions in a living environment, which may lead to new and better therapies for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+disorders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain disorders<\/a>, researchers said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0896627325002569\" target=\"_blank\">review article<\/a> in Neuron.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists create models by transplanting human brain cells culled from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stem cells<\/a> into the brains of animals such as mice, thereby creating a mix of human and animal brain cells in the same brain. This environment is closer to the complexity of a living human brain than what can be simulated in a petri dish study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specialized model used by researchers is becoming a valuable tool for studying human brain development, diseases and potential treatments, according to a team of scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Known as chimeric brain models, these laboratory tools provide a unique way to understand human brain functions in a living environment, which may lead to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213043","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\/213043","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}