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Rebuilding the brain: resurgence of fetal grafting

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A study in this issue reports that, in mice, embryonic cortical neurons transplanted into injured adult motor cortex can rapidly and accurately reinnervate distant projections. These remarkable results urgently need to be replicated.

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Figure 1: Development of corticospinal projections during embryogenesis is a highly complex process.

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  1. Mark Tuszynski is at Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093-0626, USA, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Diego, California 92161, USA. mtuszynski@ucsd.edu,

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Tuszynski, M. Rebuilding the brain: resurgence of fetal grafting. Nat Neurosci 10, 1229–1230 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1007-1229

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