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Stem cells on the brain

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Stem cells have great potential for treating a variety of diseases and seem to hit the headlines almost every week. An extremely pure population of brain stem cells has now been obtained from adult mice.

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Figure 1: A source of brain stem cells.

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    Robert Cassidy & Jonas Frisén

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Cassidy, R., Frisén, J. Stem cells on the brain. Nature 412, 690–691 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35089165

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