Stem cell advance a step forward for treatment of brain diseases

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 14:31 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have created a way to isolate neural stem cells -- cells that give rise to all the cell types of the brain -- from human brain tissue with unprecedented precision, an important step toward developing new treatments for conditions of the nervous system, like Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and spinal cord injury.

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