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Insulin-like Signal Needed to Keep Stem Cells Alive in Adult Brain

March 27th, 2010 by ferrisda · 1 Comment · Biology

University of California–Berkeley biologists have found a way to keeps stem cells alive in the adult brain, scientist are trying to focus on trying to re-grow or re-seed stem cells in the brain to allow hurt or injured areas to repair themselves. they want to perform experiments on animals before they do any human experiments. this could help people to think properly maybe affecting the physical parts. of their body.

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  • dyrssewc

    The Cal Berkeley research team discovered that there is insulin in fruit flies. Whether the same method will work in humans is unknown though.

    Some parts of the adult mammal brain and fruit fly brains are the same. In the new study, a man showed that the cells present in the eye of fruit flies are gone in the adult brain because they die off.

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