Key Factor In Brain Development Revealed, Offers Insight Into Di...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 03/27/2008 - 19:00

In the earliest days of brain development, the brain's first cells -- neuroepithelial stem cells -- divide continuously, producing a population of cells that eventually evolves into the various cells of the fully formed brain.

Now, scientists have identified a gene that, in mice, is critical for these stem cells to divide correctly.

Without it, they fail to divide, and die.

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