Milestone In The Regeneration Of Brain Cells: Supportive Cells Generate New Nerve Cells
The research group of Prof. Dr. Magdalena Gƶtz at the Institute of Stem Cell Research of the GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health, and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, has achieved an additional step for the potential replacement of damaged brain cells after injury or disease: functional nerve cells can be generated from astroglia, a type of supportive cells in the brain by means of special regulator proteins. [click link for full article]
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Filed under: Biology on August 22nd, 2007