Spring cleaning in your brain's stem cells?

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

Deep inside your brain, a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain and nerve cells when you need them. New research shows the vital role of a type of internal “spring cleaning” that both clears out garbage inside the cells, and keeps them in their perpetual stem-cell state.

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