New sources and uses for stem cells

From New Orleans, at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

Neural stem cells stole the show in New Orleans. In talks and other presentations, dozens of neuroscientists suggested new ways to obtain and use these immature cells that can give rise to neurons and the brain’s other cells.

Scientists once thought that neural stem cells exist only in young, developing brains, but compelling evidence has emerged that adult brains also harbor such cells.