by Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.017 Researchers at Stanford University in California have devised a fluorescence-activated cell-sorting method for isolating distinct neural stem and progenitor cell types from human brain tissue. The markers used in the study are conserved across diverse brain regions. The technique should aid future research on...
by University of Basel An international team of researchers involving members of the University of Basel’s Biozentrum challenges the conventional understanding of the cause of Parkinson’s disease. The researchers have shown that the inclusions in the brain’s neurons, characteristic of Parkinson’s disease, are composed of a membranous medley rather than protein fibrils. The recently published study in Nature Neuroscience raises new questions about the...
A research team of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has invented a medical device with a specific nanotechnology layer for the proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) in vitro. Compared with traditional methods, the team’s novel matrix can reduce the risk of carcinogenesis or inflammation in stem cell therapy—a treatment that offers hope of a...
Professor Ricardo Pardal and his team. Mother cells from the adult carotid body can transform into blood vessels as well as neurons. This discovery could have important repercussions on the treatment of such diseases as pediatric tumors and Parkinson’s. Researchers from the University of Seville and the Seville Institute of Biomedicine (IBiS) have just...
