Human cortical neural cell balls

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Embryonic stem cells can be readily coaxed into becoming neural progenitors, but neurons from the cerebral cortex have proved extremely difficult to make in vitro, presumably because forming these neurons requires input from other cells in a developing brain. Earlier this year, a group led by Pierre Vanderhaeghen of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Brussels, Belgium showed how to make these cells in a flat monolayer culture

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IQGAP1 Regulates Adult Neural Progenitors In Vivo and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Triggered Neural Progenitor Migration In Vitro

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"In the germinative zone of the adult rodent brain, neural progenitors migrate into niches delimited by astrocyte processes and differentiate into neuronal precursors."

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