The cortex’s distinctive ... the cerebellum enables the body to maintain balance and posture. Brain Stem The brain stem, situated at the bottom of the brain, is made up of three main parts ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The first single-cell analysis of the human ovarian cortex revealed six main types of cells, but none of the oogonial stem cells that other ...

These are stem cells that give rise to the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain that controls speech, memory, movement, and intelligence. Zika doesn't kill them right away. Instead, it hijacks ...

In findings published in Cell Stem Cell on June 21, scientists propose that neurons from the human subplate, which underlies the tissue that will become the cortex, relocate into the cortex. The ...

Previous studies from both groups showed that Lhx2 is present in the cortex but absent from the ... this was due to a requirement for Lhx2 in stem-cell proliferation or to a cell-autonomous ...