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20 October 2026
Nerve-wrapping Model
Myelin, the fatty wrapping around nerve axons, prevents the nerve's electrical signals being dissipated keeping them on a fast track to their destination. If myelin's lost so is nerve function, causing debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis and the damage is currently irreparable. Here, researchers have devised a lab-grown 3D model (a spheroid) using cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells along with myelin-producing oligodendrocytes for the study of myelin regeneration and drug-screening
Read the published research article here
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- Video (here sped up 2x) from work by Shwathy Ramesan and colleagues
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Nature Neuroscience, October 2026
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