Su-Chun Zhang, a world-renowned neuroscientist and pioneer in stem cell research, has developed a method for printing neural tissues that allows cells to form neural networks in vitro. The human brain...
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A research collaboration between UW-Madison and the University of Bern has resulted in a new protocol for generating cells that can be used to better model the response and behavior of immune cells in...
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A UW-Madison researcher has established a cell line, called VACO6, from a discarded tissue specimen of a surgically resected primary human colon cancer. The detailed characteristics of the clinical do...
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The present invention is a novel, primatized mouse model for studying the immune system of nonhuman primates in a relatively low-cost mouse. The UW-Madison inventor used a different source of immune c...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a GFAP knockout mouse model, designated tm1Mes, that has been engineered to have an internal deletion of the Gfap gene that renders it completely non-functional. ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a mouse model of Alexander disease, designated B6.129S7 (Cg) Gfap tm2Mes, that was engineered as a knock-in of the R236H point mutation in the Gfap gene; this is ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a mouse model of Alexander disease, designated FVB.129S7 (Cg) Gfap tm2Mes, that was engineered as a knock-in of the R236H point mutation in the Gfap gene; this is...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a transgenic mouse, designated Tg73.7, that carries full-length copies of a human genomic clone of wild-type GFAP, including all introns and exons.
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a mouse model of Alexander disease, designated FVB.129S7 (Cg) Gfap tm3Mes, that was engineered as a knock-in of the R76H point mutation in the Gfap gene. This is ...
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Provided herein are methods and compositions for inducing chemical senescence in neurons and methods of using chemically induced senescent neurons for modeling neurodegenerative disease and drug disco...
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Methods for obtaining populations of norepinephrine (NE) neuronal progenitor cells and creating enriched populations of NE neurons are provided herein. Also provided herein are methods for obtaining g...
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Overload of protein granules in cells induces many forms of diseases, and is especially found in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as well as ver...
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The present invention is a fluorescence-based cell assay for studying the replication of Moraxella catarrhalis. UW-Madison researchers developed a bacterial strain that fluoresces red by producing the...
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The UW Madison researchers' invention is a set of plasmid constructs and cell lines developed to investigate the effects of RNA toxicity in myotonic dystrophy. The inventor created two constructs link...
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Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, neuromesodermal progenitors, and neural stem cells into biomimetic neural tissues com...
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A method of creating an isogenic multicellular blood-brain barrier model from iPSCs is disclosed.
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The present invention relates to substantially planar vascularized brain cancer organoid and methods of using such vascularized brain cancer organoids in anti-cancer drug discovery screen. In particul...
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Methods for derivation, culture, and maturation of small hepatic progenitor cells are described.
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Photoreceptor scaffolds that can be used for transplantation of organized photoreceptor tissue, with or without retinal pigment epithelial cells, which may improve grafted cell survival, integration, ...
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A population of brain pericyte-like cells, wherein the cells express pericyte markers but do not express ACTA2 and wherein the cells are generated from hPSCs, is disclosed herein.
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Alexander disease (AxD) is a rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by formation of protein aggregates within astrocytes and disruption of growth or maintenance of the myelin sheath....
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Accurately reproducing the blood-brain barrier in an in vitro setting has been a longstanding challenge. Current methods require the independent isolation of multiple cell types, and the quality of th...
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Peripheral neuropathies are a diverse group of diseases marked by degeneration of the peripheral nervous system. These diseases affect both humans and animals. In humans, the most common form is Charc...
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Human inoculum strains of rhinoviruses have been used for more than 50 years to induce experimental colds to study disease mechanisms and to test the efficacy of antiviral drugs. Traditional inocula a...
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Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) or brittle bone disease is an incurable genetic disorder that causes fragile bones and a lifetime of breaks and fractures. Recently, mutations in the gene for bone morphog...
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