Helping the Brain to Help Itself
May 19, 2010 | Source: Technology Review
Support cells in the brain called astroglia can be turned into functioning neurons, a research team lead by the Helmholtz Center and Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich has found.
The finding suggests that scientists could someday recruit existing cells in the brain to repair the brain and spinal cord after a stroke, injury, or neurodegenerative disease.