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9 May, 2017New findings in the stem cell research by a group of scientists at Stanford University, including Turkish Cypriot scientist Dr. Fikri Birey, has been celebrated by the science community.
Findings related to the migration of nerve cells among human brain structures (organoids) have been hailed by scientists studying stem cells and regenerative biology as a ‘critical’ development in the scope of the ongoing research conducted by the Pascal Laboratories of the Stanford University Faculty of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences in the US.
The study, conducted by Turkish Cypriot neuroscientist and genetic expert Dr. Fikri Birey, Dr. Jimena Andersen and Dr. Chris Makinson has been published in “Nature”, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, on 4th May
As part of the research, the scientists obtained more information about the origins of brain disorders such as autism and epilepsy, by using three-dimensional human brain cells (forebrain spheroids) produced in a lab dish. The scientists were able to attribute, for the first time, defects in neuronal migration to Timothy syndrome, a rare condition that predisposes people to autism, epilepsy and cardiac malfunction.