by Olwen Reina | Aug 31, 2017 | Trends
You come home from a weekend away. You can’t wait to jump into your slippers, put your feet up and settle down with your favourite show. *sniff sniff* You start to notice a weird smell and after a few seconds of detective work you realize you didn’t take out the...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Nov 7, 2017 | Trends
The Discovery of Alzheimer’s Disease The Alzheimer’s story began when the German physician Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer reported distinctive plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brains of deceased individuals in a series of case study reports, published in the early...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Mar 22, 2018 | Trends
In one of our recent posts, we addressed the types of genetic variability that exist in humans and why a greater understanding of these is critical in diagnostics, for predicting our response to new drugs, and in the development of personalized treatments. Here, we...
by Allison Kennedy | Dec 16, 2022 | Citation Alerts
Tempo-iMG™ and Tempo-iOligo™ were cited by scientists in a nature.com study where they built a 3D in vitro organoid model of the blood brain barrier (BBB). They chose to build their BBB model based on a composition of multiple neural and glial cell types. By utilizing...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Dec 17, 2017 | Disease Models
Have you heard of the retinal pigment epithelium? Well, the retinal pigment epithelium (or RPE) is located at the interface between the light-sensitive outer parts of the visual cells (photoreceptors) in the retina and the blood supply of the choroid in the eye...
