Team 'spikes' stem cells to generate myelin
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
Stem cell technology has long offered the hope of regenerating tissue to repair broken or damaged neural tissue. Findings from a team of UC Davis investigators have brought this dream a step closer by developing a method to generate functioning brain cells that produce myelin—a fatty, insulating sheath essential to normal neural conduction.