Newborn neurones in the adult brain can settle in the wrong neighbourhood
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 13:14
in Biology & Nature
A new study published in this week's PLoS Biology could have significant consequences for neural tissue transplantation to treat brain injuries or neural degeneration. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that inactivating a specific gene in adult neural stem cells makes nerve cells emerging from those precursors form connections in the wrong part of the adult brain...
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