Brain Stem Cells Can Now be Tracked

U.S. researchers report that brain stem cells can now be tracked for the first time with the identification of a new marker.
The team’s senior author said that for the conditions of and involving multiple sclerosis, early childhood development, and depression, the accomplishment is opening doors to new research.
“This is a way to detect these cells in the brain, so that you can track them in certain conditions where we suspect that these cells play a certain role,” explained Dr. Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, an assistant professor of neurology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. …https://www.cellmedicine.com/news261/