A new analysis of brains from a variety of mammal species indicates that frontal-cortex expansion has occurred in all primates, not just in people, as scientists have traditionally assumed.

Scientists have found that neural stem cells use molecules that form a complex called STRIPAK to 'wake up' and produce new neurons (nerve cells) and surrounding glial cells in the brain.

In their study, published in Mechanobiology in Medicine, the researchers discovered that the protein responsible for binding neural stem cells in the human brain, neuro-cadherin, also plays a key ...

This allows the brain stem cells to activate these genes in order to produce nerve cells themselves,” explained Lukas Kremer, a doctoral student at DFKZ and first author of the current publication.

In humans, stem cells are also present in the same brain area, although they normally do not make olfactory bulb neurons after early infancy. "Some women report changes in smell during pregnancy ...

They found that most of the people who had recovered from COVID-19 had changes in the circulation of tiny blood vessels in the frontal lobe and brain stem areas, which are involved in higher order ...

Researchers have figured out how to wake up dormant stem cells in the brain that have the ability to grow into new cells. ... View 1 Image 1 / 1.

To investigate this, the researchers interrupted the blood supply to the brain of mice for a short time. As a result, astrocytes with the typical stem cell methylation profile could be detected ...