Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Instead, he wanted to see how changing a particular gene in brain cells called glia would affect the growth of neurons. The result was hemorrhage, caused by deteriorating veins and arteries, and it begged for explanation.