A Computational Model of Mood and Future Prospects

BrainXell's human neuron culture platforms provide a means to model the human brain in a dish and perform in vitro functional assays. This system enables the screening of disease phenotypes and pharmacological agents that alter neuronal activity.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inheritable cause of infant mortality that is characterized by the loss of lower motor neurons and skeletal muscle atrophy. The degeneration of motor neurons is caused by insufficient levels of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein, which is encoded by two nearly identical genes SMN1 and SMN2. Most cases of SMA harbour homozygous deletions of the SMN1 gene and retain at least one copy of SMN2.

In order to generate a robust protocol for MEA recording on hiPSC- derived neurons, we evaluated several conditions, which could affect culture performance (1.neuron seeding density; 2.seeding medium; 3.astrocyt eco-culture). These conditions were evaluated with BrainXell’s hiPSC-derived spinal motor neurons, cortical glutamatergic neurons and mixed cortical neurons.