Researchers turn one form of neuron into another in the brain
January 22, 2013
Diagram of a typical motor neuron (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
A new finding by Harvard stem cell biologists turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head — demonstrating that it is possible toturn one type of already differentiated (formed from a stem cell) neuron into another within the brain.
The discovery by Paola Arlotta and Caroline Rouaux indicates that “maybe the brain is not as immutable as we always thought, because at least during an early window of time, one can reprogram the identity of one neuronal class into another,” said Arlotta, an Associate Professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB)./.../
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