Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

Stem Cells Drive Expansion of Brain’s Cortex . Like the phyllo dough crust in baklava and certain other Greek and Middle Eastern delicacies, the reptilian and mammalian cortices are made from thin ...

The cerebral cortex, the largest and most complex component of the brain, is unique to mammals and alone has evolved human specializations. Although at first all stem cells in charge of building ...

In the course of human evolution, the cortex has expanded as much as 1,000-fold, but how this occurred is still a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have succeeded in mapping ...

All three groups of stem and progenitor cells appear to generate projection neurons 15,16,17, and the increased numbers of oRG cells in the primate cerebral cortex has been proposed to make an ...

By making stem cells from a patient with microcephaly, they were able to identify the defect involved in the patient's disorder. The mature cerebral cortex is a brain structure with multiple ...

Researchers have used human neural stem cells to 3D print functional brain tissue that mimics the architecture of the cerebral cortex, the brain’s outermost layer.

Stem and progenitor cells exhibit diversity in early brain development that likely contributes to later neural complexity in the adult cerebral cortex, according to a new study published Nov. 6 in ...

Jan. 20 -- TUESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Transplanted neurons grown from embryonic stem cells were able to form proper brain connections in newborn mice, U.S. scientists report. Researchers ...