Can brain organoids help in treating people with Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Can brain organoids help in treating people with Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Author: Johns Hopkins Medicine April 9, 2026 Duration: 1:06
Brain organoids are lab grown clusters of cells that have several of the cell types found in someone’s brain. Cells taken from a person’s blood are coaxed to become stem cells, then differentiate into brain cells. Vasiliki Machairaki, a genetic …

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Good news on cancer survival! Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03
Seventy percent of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States will still be alive five years later, the American Cancer Society reports. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says…
Who is at risk to develop PICS? Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06
PICS stands for post intensive care syndrome, and it is characterized by a number of physical and mental health conditions that may follow someone’s stay in an ICU. Rohan Mathur, a critical care expert at Johns Hopkins,…
What can be done about PICS? Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04
Physical and mental health issues can follow a stay in an intensive care unit, a condition known as PICS, for post intensive care syndrome. Rohan Mathur, a critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, says now that more attent…
How can you tell if PICS is present? Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05
When someone has survived an intensive care unit stay, they may experience a host of challenges to their wellbeing known collectively as post intensive care syndrome, or PICS. Critical care expert Rohan Mathur at Johns H…
What is post-intensive care syndrome? Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03
Once you’ve made it through a stay in an intensive care unit, you can simply move forward in your life, right? Not exactly, as recent research indicates. So-called post intensive care syndrome, or PICS, can continue to i…