Stem cell discoveries pace growing understanding of human brain's uniqueness
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 07:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists are making great strides in figuring out how the human brain with its expansive cerebral cortex and corresponding capacity for higher thinking became one of natures greatest wonders. Insights about how the brain develops are leading to novel ideas about the causes of a range of brain disorders, and are raising hopes for the regeneration of tissue that is lost in diseases such as Alzheimers. At the center of this scientific ferment are new stem cell discoveries by researchers at UCSF.