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.

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