{"id":244795,"date":"2026-10-02T05:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/mini-brains-model-myelin-damage-and-regeneration-offering-new-tool-for-ms-drug-testing"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:39:54","slug":"mini-brains-model-myelin-damage-and-regeneration-offering-new-tool-for-ms-drug-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/mini-brains-model-myelin-damage-and-regeneration-offering-new-tool-for-ms-drug-testing","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mini-brains\u2019 model myelin damage and regeneration, offering new tool for MS drug testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mini-brains-model-myelin-damage-and-regeneration-offering-new-tool-for-ms-drug-testing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed 3D \u201cmini-brains\u201d they hope will help speed up the search for much-needed drug treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune condition affecting almost 3 million people worldwide. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-026-02457-z\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Led by The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Monash University, scientists from Australia and New Zealand have used reprogrammed adult stem cells to engineer the human-like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-generating-human-like-neural-networks-cellular.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">central nervous system cell model<\/a>, which is the size of a grain of rice.<\/p>\n<p>Among only a handful of MS organoids created globally, the \u201cmini-brains\u201d give researchers a highly detailed cellular view of myelin destruction (demyelination) and regeneration (remyelination) in human cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed 3D \u201cmini-brains\u201d they hope will help speed up the search for much-needed drug treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune condition affecting almost 3 million people worldwide. Their research has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Led by The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Monash University, scientists from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244795","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=244795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}