Deans' stroke musings: A European university just landed $3.3M to 3D print artificial brains for research

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

A European university just landed $3.3M to 3D print artificial brains for research

By matching this up with objective 3d scans of dead and damaged areas we will finally be able to show survivors exactly the extent of their damage. With that knowledge we can start mapping stroke protocols to recovery from such damage. I'm sure this will take years but we have to start somewhere other than the crap of awareness, prevention and F.A.S.T.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/meso-brain-project/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&

Meso-Brain sounds a bit like a soup you really don’t want to order. In fact, it’s an intriguing new project taking place at Aston University in the U.K., which just received 3.3 million euros in funding from the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technology (FET) scheme.
Bringing together top researchers in the fields of photonics, imaging, biology, and neuroscience, the goal of the innovative project is to attempt to replicate the brain’s neural structures using 3D nanoprinting technology.
“The Meso-Brain project will use recently-developed 3D laser nano-printing technology to support one of the major aims of neuroscience: to form neural networks with specific biological architectures,” Professor Edik Rafailov told Digital Trends. “If we would be able to use 3D nano-printing to improve the connection of neurons in an area of the brain which has been damaged, we will be in a position to develop much more effective ways to treat those with dementia or brain injuries.”
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The core technology involved with the project involves pluripotent stem cells, which are cells taken from tissues and then genetically modified to behave like an embryonic stem cell. These cells can then be 3D-printed to create precise neural networks according to brain architectures. One day, the results could help repair damaged parts of the brain in those individuals suffering from different types of brain trauma or neurological disorder.
In addition to Aston University, Meso-Brain will also boast contributions from Axol Bioscience Ltd., Laser Zentrum Hannover, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, the University of Barcelona, and Kite Innovations.
Meso-Brain isn’t the only high-profile, publicly funded project designed to reverse-engineer the human brain in recent times. There has also been the United States’ MICrONS project (dedicated to building more biofidelic algorithms) and the European Commission’s Human Brain Project (intended to build a complete computer simulation of the human brain over a ten-year period), among others.
Taken together, we should be looking for some invaluable brain-related insights over the coming years.