Self-Organized Cerebral Organoids with Human-Specific Features Predict Effective Drugs to Combat Zika Virus Infection

Summary: The human cerebral cortex possesses distinct structural and functional features that are not found in the lower species traditionally used to model brain development and disease. Accordingly, considerable attention has been placed on the development of methods to direct pluripotent stem cel...

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Main Authors: Momoko Watanabe, Jessie E. Buth, Neda Vishlaghi, Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, Jiannis Taxidis, Baljit S. Khakh, Giovanni Coppola, Caroline A. Pearson, Ken Yamauchi, Danyang Gong, Xinghong Dai, Robert Damoiseaux, Roghiyh Aliyari, Simone Liebscher, Katja Schenke-Layland, Christine Caneda, Eric J. Huang, Ye Zhang, Genhong Cheng, Daniel H. Geschwind, Peyman Golshani, Ren Sun, Bennett G. Novitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124717313372