A research group of CIMeC of the University of Trento found out that the same brain areas and coding schemes are activated when navigating through geographical and conceptual spaces. The study, which for the first time indicates that the same spatial maps are used for places and ideas, appeared in the “Journal of Neuroscience”

Hundreds of Organoids (miniature brains) were grown in the laboratories of the University of Trento to study the genetic mechanisms responsible for the most common brain cancer affecting children. The results of a collaborative research effort, coordinated by the University of Trento and carried out with Sapienza University and Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù in Rome and Irccs Neuromed, were published today in Nature Communications. The study will open new perspectives of research, as the large-scale production of in vitro tumors could make it possible to perform large drug screenings to identify new brain cancer drugs

A research team of the University of Trento used genome editing to permanently correct two of the mutations that cause the disease. Instead of animal models, organoids derived from patients' cells were used in this study. The research work was carried out in collaboration with KU Leuven, in Belgium, with support from the Italian foundation for research on cystic fibrosis and the participation of the Cystic fibrosis association of Trentino. The results were published today in "Nature Communications"