THE GREAT DIVIDE
Young brain stem cells (one shown dividing, left) pack old proteins tagged with ubiquitin (red) into one daughter cell.
Not exact matches
For White, the problems don't just
stem from the risk of
brain damage, it's the distorted message about things like masculinity that the NFL sends to fans and
young players.
Healthy people in their 70s have just as many
young nerve cells, or neurons, in a memory - related part of the
brain as do teenagers and
young adults, researchers report in the April 5 Cell
Stem Cell.
A small cluster of
stem cells in the
brain seems to help mice stay
young, and injecting extra
stem cells helps them live longer.
When
stem cells from the old
brain are cultured with signals of a
young choroid plexus they can divide and form new neurons (red).
The team found that people have large numbers of neural
stem cells and progenitors early in life — an average of 1618
young neurons per square millimeter of
brain tissue at birth.
One such antibody agonist, which can turn
stem - like cells in bone marrow into
young brain cells, was described in a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month.
The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of
stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic
stem cells, as well as the reported case of a
young boy who developed a
brain tumor four years after receiving a
stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.