Human Brain Cells Grown In Lab May Help Fight Alzheimer's

Researchers have made dishes of human brain cells that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia and affects about 465,000 people in Britain. The disease takes hold when plaques and tangles form in the brain and critical nerve cells die out. One in 14 people over the age of 65 is affected.

Researchers in the US have made dishes of human brain cells that could speed up the search for drugs and lead to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

The freshly made neurons are likely to prove valuable in finding drugs that slow the progression of the disease, and may ultimately pave the way for brain cell transplants to treat the memory loss associated with the disorder.

Researchers made batches of brain neurons by adding