The brain, the immune system, blood — simply put, many, if not all, of the body's systems are built on the concept of cellular diversity. (jax.org)
But in the study being published, researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet present a molecular time mechanism that can help explain neuronal stem cell regulation and therefore also the occurrence of cellular diversity in the brain. (sciencedaily.com)
«It's still a fundamentally open question how many cell types there are in the brain, which clearly has more cellular diversity than any other organ.» (sciencedaily.com)