Scientists use human cerebral organoid to test drug for deadly brain disease
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9 March 2021Scientists use human cerebral organoid to test drug for deadly brain disease
Approximately two years after establishing a human cerebral organoid system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), National Institutes of Health researchers have further developed the model to screen drugs for potential CJD treatment. The scientists, from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), describe their work in Scientific Reports.
