{"id":23320,"date":"2023-01-16T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/uncategorized\/logran-cultivar-neuronas-maduras-en-el-laboratorio-para-estudiar-enfermedades-neurodegenerativas"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:52:33","slug":"logran-cultivar-neuronas-maduras-en-el-laboratorio-para-estudiar-enfermedades-neurodegenerativas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/cientificas-en\/logran-cultivar-neuronas-maduras-en-el-laboratorio-para-estudiar-enfermedades-neurodegenerativas","title":{"rendered":"Scientists succeed in culturing mature neurons in laboratories to study neurodegenerative diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from <a href=\"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instituto de Bioingenier\u00eda de Catalu\u00f1a (IBEC)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/web\/portal\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Universidad de Barcelona (UB)<\/a> have succeeded in creating the first highly mature neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using a synthetic material, opening up new opportunities for medical research and potential therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic injuries.<\/p><p>The researchers believe that by advancing the age of neurons in cell cultures, experiments can be improved to better understand late-onset diseases. &#8220;Having mature neurons in the laboratory is essential to advance the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer&#8217;s, Parkinson&#8217;s, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and in the development of effective and safe therapies&#8221;, comments one of the authors, Alberto Ortega, Ram\u00f3n y Cajal researcher at the UB.<\/p><p>The results are published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-stem-cell\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cell Stem Cell<\/a>.<\/p><p>SOURCE:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/logran-cultivar-neuronas-maduras-en-laboratorio-estudiar-enfermedades-neurodegenerativas\">madri+d<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Instituto de Bioingenier\u00eda de Catalu\u00f1a (IBEC) and Universidad de Barcelona (UB) have succeeded in creating the first highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cientificas-en","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23322,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23320\/revisions\/23322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionisabelgemio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}