Transplanted stem cells form proper brain connections

Transplanted neurones grown from embryonic stem cells can fully integrate into the brains of young animals, according to new research in the Jan. 20 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Healthy brains have stable and precise connections between cells that are necessary for normal behaviour. This new finding is the first to show that stem cells can be directed not only to become specific brain cells, but to link correctly...

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