GROWING A PERSONALISED CURE.

This article from Cosmos Magazine explores the use of brain organoids in groundbreaking research to find a cure for debilitating genetic diseases in children. The focus is on a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Moon, who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease called Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Type 56 (SPG56). Researchers at the University of Queensland's Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) have created brain organoids from Tallulah's skin cells and are studying their electrical activity to understand the disease better. The ultimate goal is to develop gene therapy to replace the faulty gene causing the disease. The article highlights the challenges and uncertainties involved in this research but emphasizes the potential for personalized medicine and the hope it brings to individuals with rare diseases. [Extracted from the article]