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Scientists take to human-frog hybrids to study autism 		   
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Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, are studying the way the brain cells of among autistic people behave by fusing cells from the preserved brains of deceased patients with the eggs of a carnivorous African frog called Xenopus.

The researchers say that frog eggs work a little like human neurons, and that the hybrid cells act as a surrogate of a living brain with the condition.

“It’’s almost as if you were studying a neuron in the human brain,” New Scientist magazine quoted Ricardo Miledi, a neurobiologist who developed the approach and has previously used Xenopus eggs to study epilepsy, as saying.
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Submission Date:

07/23/2008by: shannonj
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