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Our Mission
Everything we do starts with our Mission: to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
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Our Mission
Everything we do starts with our Mission: to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
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Our Mission
Everything we do starts with our Mission: to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
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- Creating Empowerment Opportunities in the Veterinary Sciences
- Building hope and affordable homes in Michigan
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- Allergy Diagnostic Tests Help Ambitious Tennis Player Get Back in the Game
- Tackling Crime by Trading Punishment for Treatment
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- Supporting connections that lead to life-saving medical care
- Microbiologist's near-fatal battle with sepsis highlights urgent need for awareness and better treatment protocols
- An Icelandic volcano expedition exploring newly formed lava tubes uncovers insights into Earth's origins.
- How Thermo Fisher Scientific colleagues partner with Ronald McDonald House to support families of pediatric patients
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- Survivor of domestic violence finds new hope with prosthetic hand
- Thermo Fisher colleagues’ passion to advance HIV clinical trials help make lifesaving therapies a reality
- Clean the World and Thermo Fisher volunteers support communities hard hit by natural disaster
- Thermo Fisher volunteers assemble birthing kits to support underserved mothers and babies
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- Lab automation goes viral in honeybee disease research
- How NIH funding transforms organ transplantation
- Thermo Fisher Scientific launches state-of-the-art Advanced Therapies Collaboration Center
- Discovery opens doors for cheaper and quicker battery manufacturing
- Tufts Center study shows integrated drug development services could speed delivery of new therapies to patients up to 3 years faster
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- Thermo Fisher opens the Centre for Advanced Training and Innovative Research to build the next generation of scientists in South Africa
- Thermo Fisher collaboration with Project HOPE helps create opportunities for Nigerian youth
- Thermo Fisher and Rise Against Hunger provide lifesaving support in Haiti
- New Thermo Fisher manufacturing facility boosts U.S. supply chain resilience and creates jobs
- Science and genetic testing buy Stage 4 lung cancer patient 10 more years, and counting
- Thermo Fisher and OpenAI collaboration aims to accelerate clinical trials and enable the delivery of new medicines to patients sooner.
- FDA Clears Thermo Fisher’s EXENT to aid in confirming the diagnosis of multiple myeloma.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens Its Fourth State-of-the-Art Cell and Gene Therapy Collaboration Center
- Turning incurable cancer into a manageable disease: Hope rises for multiple myeloma patients
- Thermo Fisher’s “Her Science” program helps build a community for emerging women scientists
- Tackling Crime by Trading Punishment for Treatment
- How CAR-T cell therapy gave Gideon his tomorrow
- Thermo Fisher’s growing AI ecosystem aims to transform how science is done
- Rethinking Drug Development: How science is taking a more human-relevant approach with support from Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Seeing Alzheimer’s Disease more clearly, one protein at a time
- Thermo Fisher opens cryo-EM center in South San Francisco to speed drug discovery
- Brains in space, Alzheimer’s disease research using organoids
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Our Mission
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STUDYING the human brain isn’t easy and it requires incredible ingenuity. In the latest example of this, scientists have taken an extraordinary approach: reprogramming a patient’s skin cells into three-dimensional brain organoids. These incredible cellular complexes can be described as miniature “brains” that replicate the biology of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Organoids can model diseases with remarkable fidelity, giving researchers a powerful, patient-derived system to study how disease unfolds at the cellular level. But Alzheimer's develops over decades, and traditional experiments can take years before meaningful biological changes appear.
Inspired by NASA’s twin astronaut research demonstrating accelerated aging in space, a team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego, pursued a bold idea. They sent brain organoids to the International Space Station to speed up the timeline for discovery.
Once the organoids were back on the ground, the scientists leveraged the Thermo™ Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Astral™ Mass Spectrometer (MS) and single-cell proteomics to investigate changes in the biology. They discovered that 30 days in space was equal to 10 years of aging on Earth, information that can be critical to inform development of novel therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease in the future.
Watch our video to learn more about how this team is leveraging ingenuity, proteomics and Thermo Fisher’s innovative technology to push the boundaries of neuroscience and unlock new understanding of Alzheimer’s disease at the single-cell level.