Hopes For Personalized Regenerative Medicine After Monkeys Receive Transplanted Brain Cells

Hopes For Personalized Regenerative Medicine After Monkeys Receive Transplanted Brain Cells. University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2013, March 17). Medical News Today. Retrieved from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257709.php.

For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells, After six months, the cells looked entirely normal, and were only detectable because they initially were tagged with a fluorescent protein.



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