Penn researchers engineer first system of human nerve-cell tissue

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Four individual human DRG neurons that survived for months in culture. Differing colors indicate different neuron-specific stains. Bottom: Center region of an engineered human nervous tissue construct showing stretch-grown axon bundles. Credit: Dougl ...
Four individual human DRG neurons that survived for months in culture. Differing colors indicate different neuron-specific stains. Bottom: Center region of an engineered human nervous tissue construct showing stretch-grown axon bundles. Credit: Douglas H. Smith, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damaged to the nervous system. They report their findings in the February issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery.


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