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DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers have shown for the first time that putting two specific types of neural cells directly into an aging brain can kick-start creation of brain cells linked to learning and memory.

It has been shown over the last decade that brain cells replicate, a finding that had run counter to previously accepted dogma. The area where neuron-forming stem cells perform much of this replication is the hippocampus, part of the brain linked to memory and learning, and an area affected in older people as well as those with Alzheimer's disease

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