The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help - Jocelyne Bloch
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Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured and then re-injected in a lesioned area of the same br…
What was the result of re-implanting the cells in the monkey with the non-lesioned brain? What was the result of the lesioned brain?
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