New research shows that adults' brains still carry stem cells that grow, divide, and eventually become new mature neurons.

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The brain stem connects to your spinal cord and sits just underneath the cerebrum. The largest part of the brain is the cerebrum, which consists of four lobes, each with a distinct function.

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 ...

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Studer's team, for example, began looking at stem cells to treat brain diseases more than 25 years ago. "For us, it's quite an exciting time," he says, "finally seeing some of the fruit of that work." ...

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They isolated ordinary astrocytes and brain stem cells from the ventricular-subventricular zone (vSVZ), a region of adult mice brains with young neurons.