ScienceBrain regions reportedly develop from two distinct cell lineages
A science roundup cites Stanford Medicine’s report that separate stem-cell recipes enabled researchers to grow functional hindbrain motor neurons.
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A science roundup, citing Stanford Medicine, says the hindbrain follows a different embryonic lineage from the forebrain and midbrain. The account links earlier failures to grow hindbrain motor neurons to attempts using the wrong progenitor cells. It says separating the recipes yielded functional hindbrain motor neurons from human pluripotent stem cells—potentially giving researchers cells to study brainstem disorders including ALS and spinal muscular atrophy.
