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Study discovers the mechanism that avoids conflicts in the activity of brain stem cells - EurekAlert


<p>Brain stem cells express both genes that maintain their identity and genes specific to the neurons they produce. This finding, published in <em>Nature Communications</em>, represents another step in understanding how brain stem cells work, in their capacity to produce new neurons.</p>

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