ScienceExperiments suggest two types of starter cell are needed to build the brain
Nature reports evidence challenging the long-held idea that a single type of progenitor cell gives rise to the entire brain.
TLDR
Many scientists have long thought that one type of starter cell produces the entire brain, Nature says. The experiments it describes challenge that picture, providing evidence that two types of progenitor cell are needed to form the organ.
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Experiments suggest two types of starter cell are needed to build the brain
Nature reports evidence challenging the long-held idea that a single type of progenitor cell gives rise to the entire brain.
TLDR
Many scientists have long thought that one type of starter cell produces the entire brain, Nature says. The experiments it describes challenge that picture, providing evidence that two types of progenitor cell are needed to form the organ.