Stem cell research is controversial because of its association with abortion, but such research has become essential to understanding the human body and developing new ways to treat disease. Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine say they have used stem cells to develop a “game-changing” organoid model to study […]
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In a first for USC Stem Cell scientists, the laboratory of Giorgia Quadrato, an assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, has pioneered a novel human brain organoid model that generates all the major cell types of the cerebellum, a hindbrain region predominantly made up of two cell types necessary for movement, cognition, and emotion: granule cells and Purkinje neurons.