Sanford Research scientists are published in Nature Cell Biology for their work developing a model to explore therapies for a pediatric brain tumor known as choroid plexus carcinoma. (sciencedaily.com)
This infolding put the photoreceptors in close proximity to the retinal pigment epithelium, enabling the biochemical recycling of retinoids following light absorption, the attenuation of light that passes through the photoreceptors unabsorbed, and the delivery of oxygen and nutrients from the overlying choroid tissue. (scientificamerican.com)
When stem cells from the old brain are cultured with signals of a young choroid plexus they can divide and form new neurons (red). (sciencedaily.com)