Isn't your competent? doctor already working with these other researchers on other brain initiatives? That's right, you have an incompetent? doctor, don't you? As proven by not even having or attempting 100% recovery protocols!
Langer: This Is Your Brain on a Chip
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One of the things that we're trying to do with Li-Huei Tsai and Alice Stanton, who's a postdoc with me, is make models of the human brain. So, you might have a brain on a chip someday. That might, to the extent that we're successful, lead to new ways of finding molecules that could interfere with different brain diseases.
What Alice has done is make a personalized brain on a chip, because it's outside the body. If you try to study humans or animals, it's very hard to get much data. But if it's outside the body on a microscope slide or a chip, you can do many experiments and get a lot of data, and hopefully understand things better.
Ultimately, you’d of course have to go back to animals or humans. But with the idea that we could really make something like that, I'm hopeful it will lead to new ways of studying brain disease and maybe lead to new treatments someday.
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