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Stem cell therapy

Treatment approach that replaces damaged tissue with cells grown or reprogrammed from stem cells, including transplantation of laboratory-made neurons into the brain.

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A regenerating flatworm neuron gets its transmitter and its position from six of ten identified genes

University of Georgia researchers report the ten genes in Nature Communications and characterized six of them in detail. Knocking some of them out left planarians unable to make new dopamine neurons and slow to move.

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