Scientists recreate blood-brain barrier defect outside the body
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Scientists can`t make a living copy of your brain outside your body. That`s the stuff of science fiction. But in a new study, they recreated a critical brain component, the blood-brain barrier, that functioned as it would in the individual who provided the cells to make it. Their achievement-detailed in a study published today in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell-provides a new way to make discoveries about brain disorders and, potentially, predict which drugs will work best for an individual patient.