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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What is an assembloid? Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05
Brain organoids, cell collections grown in a lab to study diseases like Alzheimer’s, have created excitement because they are a bit more representative of a real brain. Johns Hopkins cell engineering expert Vasiliki Mach…
What is an organoid? Elizabeth Tracey reports [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05
Using induced stem cells helps create models for diseases like Alzheimer’s disease that can be studied in a lab, but now three dimensional cell collections called organoids can also be developed from stem cells. Vasiliki…