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·April 24, 2019·3 min read

Proteins stand up to nerve cell regression

Study reveals the critical and novel roles Integrator complex proteins play in promoting healthy brain development in flies.

Image shows a depiction of a brain made up of white neurons.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·November 23, 2016·4 min read

Neuron Producing Stem Cells in Membranes Covering the Brain Discovered

Researchers have discovered neural progenitor cells in the meninges.

Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·June 3, 2016·4 min read

Zika Virus Infects Brain Cells and Evades Immune System Detection

A new study reports on how Zika directly affects the fetal brain during development and also evades detection by the immune system.

This is a diagram of the drosophila neuroblast mentioned in the article.

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·June 19, 2013·4 min read

Researchers Explain How Neural Stem Cells Create New and Varied Neurons

Examining the brains of Drosophila fruit flies, researchers discover a novel stem cell mechanism which could help explain how neurons form in humans.

Featured Genetics Neurology

·October 25, 2012·4 min read

Researchers at the Doorstep of Stem Cell Therapies for MS, Other Myelin Disorders

Scientists report researchers are now on the threshold of human application of stem cell therapies for a class of neurological diseases known as myelin disorders – a long list of diseases that include conditions such as multiple sclerosis, white matter stroke, cerebral palsy, certain dementias, and rare but fatal childhood disorders called pediatric leukodystrophies.

Neurons are shown. Caption describes it well.

Brain Cancer Featured Neurology

·October 22, 2012·3 min read

Aggressive Brain Tumors Can Originate from a Range of Nervous System Cells

Scientists have long believed that glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor, begins in glial cells that make up supportive tissue in the brain or in neural stem cells. Researchers found that the tumors can originate from other types of differentiated cells in the nervous system, including cortical neurons.

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·October 21, 2012·5 min read

Natural Process Activating Brain’s Immune Cells Could Point Way to Repairing Damaged Brain

The brain’s key “breeder” cells secrete substances that boost the numbers and strength of critical brain-based immune cells believed to play a vital role in brain health. This finding adds a new dimension to our understanding of how resident stem cells and stem cell transplants may improve brain function.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 21, 2012·4 min read

Research Identifies Protein that Regulates Key Fate Decision in Cortical Progenitor Cells

Researchers solved an important piece of one of neuroscience's outstanding puzzles: how progenitor cells in the developing mammalian brain reproduce themselves while also giving birth to neurons that will populate the emerging cerebral cortex, the seat of cognition and executive function in the mature brain.

Genetics

·April 16, 2012·1 min read