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Brain tissue from a petri dish

19-Apr-2017 - The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it is extremely difficult to do scientific experiments on it – ones that could help us to understand neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, for example. Scientists at the Luxembourg ...

brain cell cultures Parkinson's disease +3

Researchers decipher how the body controls stem cells

21-Mar-2017 - Stem cells are unspecialised cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body. So far, however, scientists only partially understand how the body controls the fate of these all-rounders, and what factors decide whether a stem cell will differentiate, for example, into a blood, liver ...

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Drug discovery for Parkinson’s disease: Researchers Grow Neurons in 3D

02-Jul-2015 - The progressive loss of neurons in the brain of Parkinson’s patients is slow yet inexorable. So far, there are no drugs that can halt this insidious process. Researchers at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have now managed to grow the types of ...

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Researchers characterise a new tumour syndrome

15-Oct-2014 - Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have published their findings that mutations in a gene known as “ARMC5” promote the growth of benign tumours in the adrenal glands and on the meninges: ARMC5 appears to belong to the group of ...

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New research method provides better insights into the world of microbes

01-Aug-2012 - A team of Luxembourg-based researchers, working at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, has developed a research method that will allow scientists to study microbes in more depth than ever before. Microbes, such as bacteria, fungi and viruses, are invisible to the human eye but have ...

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