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This new miBrain model from MIT has it all:
🧠 Neurons, microglia, oligodendroglia, astrocytes, pericytes, & brain microvascular endothelial cells
⚙️ Key features & functions of the human brain
👩👦 Specificity to individual donors
🧬 Customizability via gene editing
📈 Scalability for large projects
🧠 Neurons, microglia, oligodendroglia, astrocytes, pericytes, & brain microvascular endothelial cells
⚙️ Key features & functions of the human brain
👩👦 Specificity to individual donors
🧬 Customizability via gene editing
📈 Scalability for large projects
![Image from the MIT Picower article, "MIT invents human brain model with six major cell types to enable personalized disease research, drug discovery" with the following caption: “Cyan staining shows each of the six major cell types [pericytes, astrocytes, endothelial cells, neurons, oligodendrocytes, and microglia] integrated in a miBrain culture.” The original image appeared in Figure 1 of the PNAS article, “Engineered 3D immuno-glial-neurovascular human miBrain model” (10.1073/pnas.2511596122) by Stanton et al.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:in2pnzujy66a7qnesoxha6ar/bafkreig4udiootxzzdxay4vwclppbwedfythnr36dzzoavgbrzvz2m54va@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This new miBrain model from MIT has it all:
🧠 Neurons, microglia, oligodendroglia, astrocytes, pericytes, & brain microvascular endothelial cells
⚙️ Key features & functions of the human brain
👩👦 Specificity to individual donors
🧬 Customizability via gene editing
📈 Scalability for large projects
🧠 Neurons, microglia, oligodendroglia, astrocytes, pericytes, & brain microvascular endothelial cells
⚙️ Key features & functions of the human brain
👩👦 Specificity to individual donors
🧬 Customizability via gene editing
📈 Scalability for large projects