News tagged with neural precursor cells
Scientists create stable, self-renewing neural stem cells
In a paper published in the April 25 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Gladstone Instit ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Study shows gene's role in developing and maintaining cells key for a lifetime of memories
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators showed a gene named Prox1 is a key player in normal development of a brain structure crucial for learning and memory and remains active throughout life, nurturing the cells ...
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Neural stem cells attack glioblastoma cells
In their latest research, scientists of the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have demonstrated how the brain's own stem cells and precursor cells control the growth of glioblastomas. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Protein lets brain repair damage from multiple sclerosis, other disorders
A protein that helps build the brain in infants and children may aid efforts to restore damage from multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in ...
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Jun 07, 2010 |
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Discovered key gene for the formation of new neurons
Scientists discovered a gene - called AP2gamma - crucial for the neural development of the visual cortex, in a discovery that can have implications for the therapeutics of neural regeneration as well as provide new clues ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Creating ideal neural cells for clinical use
Investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have developed a protocol to rapidly differentiate human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into neural progenitor cells that may be ideal for transplantation. ...
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Apr 13, 2009 |
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