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Bioengineers Create Functional 3D Brain-like Tissue

Tissue model could change the way scientists study the brain in vitro-NIH study

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2014.  Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be kept alive in the lab for more than two months.

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Picture of neurons on scaffold

Confocal microscope image of neurons (greenish yellow) attached to silk-based scaffold (blue). The neurons formed functional networks throughout the scaffold pores (dark areas). Image…

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