SINGAPORE - A tiny camera placed on the head of a mouse is offering researchers a window into how the brain functions, and the potential to understand brain diseases in humans including Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer's is believed to affect at least 50 million worldwide - a number that is expected to grow to more than 152 million by 2050, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. Describing the device as something out of science fiction, Prof May-Britt Moser said the Mini2P has been able to record almost 400 grid cells simultaneously in the mouse.
Its discovery won the Mosers, together with American-British scientist John O'Keefe, the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2014. Grid cells, which are neurons within the entorhinal cortex, are often the first to be hit among patients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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