Stem cells for eating and sex pinpointed

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 22:21 in Biology & Nature

New research has identified the stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells -- olfactory receptors, vomeronasal and gonadotropin releasing hormone neurons -- that are responsible for enabling animals and humans, to eat, interact socially and reproduce.

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