Repairing the cerebral cortex: It can be done
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 14:20
in Biology & Nature
An important step in the area of cell therapy has been taken by scientists: repairing the cerebral cortex of the adult mouse using a graft of cortical neurons derived from embryonic stem cells. These results also suggest that damaged circuits can be restored only by using neurons of the same type as the damaged area.