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MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads | World Alzheimer’s Day

September 21, 2023

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On this World Alzheimer’s Day, we are raising awareness on the ongoing research that seeks to unravel the mysteries behind Alzheimer’s disease. Join us in celebrating the incredible advances in this research field and outstanding scientific tools supporting discoveries on risk factors and underlying mechanisms, as well as potential treatments for Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a decline in cognitive function and memory. Symptoms can include memory loss, confusion, language impairment, and changes in behavior…

MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads | World Organoid Research Day

March 22, 2023

Diana Freire

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Today is World Organoid Research Day! Let’s celebrate the incredible advances being made in this fascinating and yet rapidly evolving field of research by raising awareness on the potential of organoids in advancing biomedical research, drug discovery, regenerative medicine, modeling complex diseases, personalized medicine, reducing animal testing, and advancing stem cell research. Grown from human stem cells, organoids are miniaturized three-dimensional structures that closely resemble the architecture and function of real human organs, providing a more complex and comprehensive…

MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads | iPSC as a tool for Disease Cell Modelling

February 21, 2023

Diana Freire

Blog, iPSC, MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads

Welcome to our first MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads blog of 2023! After 2022 – a year full of great scientific advances and discoveries – this month we would like to focus on induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC) as a great tool for Disease Cell Modelling and for developing novel disease therapies. Development and advancement of patient derived iPSC technology has opened several avenues for scientists to generate relevant and reproducible human in vitro models. iPSC technology has also allowed researchers to…

MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads | Retinal Organoids

January 27, 2022

Sander Arets

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Welcome to our MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads blog for 2022. A new year also means new publications to highlight and new topics to discover. This year as well, for our monthly must-reads, we will choose a theme per month and select five papers that we think are worth reading. Last year we covered a range of topics and in our first edition of 2022, we have decided to focus on Retinal Organoids. Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles.…

MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads | CMOS-Based MEA Technology

August 6, 2021

Sander Arets

Blog, MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads

It is time for a new edition of our monthly blog. In the August edition during the summer holidays, we highlight the latest developments on CMOS-based MEA technology. CMOS-based MEAs are used for detailed investigations of neuronal electrical activity at network and single-cell levels and to evaluate the effect of drugs on neuronal physiological activity. Therefore, for this Monthly Must-Reads edition, we decided to highlight the article written by Yuan X et al., in which switch-matrix (SM) and active-pixel-sensors…

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