Italian laboratories have managed
to create the first miniature in-vitro brains, the size of a
small peanut, to simulate those of children in an attempt to
find new treatment options for paediatric brain tumors.
The results were published in the Nature Communications
journal and were achieved by a research team coordinated by Luca
Tiberi of the Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Brain Disorders and
Cancer of Cibio Department of the University of Trento.
The University of Trento led the research study, coordinating
a research team involving Sapienza University of Rome, Ospedale
pediatrico Bambino Gesù in Rome, and Irccs Neuromed-Istituto
Neurologico Mediterraneo in Pozzilli (Isernia), with support
from the Armenise-Harvard Foundation, the Italian Association
for Cancer Research-Airc, and Fondazione Caritro in Trento.
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