For the first time, researchers have developed a way to view stem cells in the brains of living animals, including humans—a finding that allows scientists to follow the process neurogenesis (the birth of neurons). The discovery comes just months after scientists confirmed that such cells are generated in adult as well as developing brains.
“I was looking for a method that would enable us to study these cells through[out a] life span,” says Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, an assistant professor of neurology at Stony Brook University in New York State, who specializes in neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy that premature and low-weight babies are at greater risk of developing. …http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-birth-of-a-brain-cell-witnessing-neurogenesis/
Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital