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• Engineering organoids to recapitulate brain tissue
  The ability to derive and manipulate pluripotent stem cells has opened up new avenues for modeling biological systems in both healthy and diseased conditions. In order to more fully recapitulate the tissue microenvironment with its cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix, and cell-niche interactions, it is essential to transition stem-cell culturing from monolayers to 3D structures. Self-organization of...

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• Awards David Walt and George Church receive grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to enable better diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease
  December 5, 2018
• Press Release Taking the brain apart to put it all together again
  August 20, 2018
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  Wyss Institute launches ReadCoor to commercialize 3D in situ gene sequencing technology
  September 28, 2016

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  This is Your Brain on Chips
  How do you study something as complex as the human brain? Take it apart. Wyss researchers have created Organ Chips that mimic the blood-brain barrier and the brain and, by linking them together, discovered how our blood vessels and our neurons influence each other. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Gyrification: How the Brain Got its Folds
  A team led by Wyss Institute Core Faculty member L. Mahadevan used numerical simulations and a physical gel model to answer an age-old question that has vexed scientists for years: how did the outer layer of the mammalian brain (gray matter) become so convoluted atop the brain’s inner white matter? It turns out that at...