Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

For example, red blood cells look very different from nerve cells, but they both start out as embryonic stem cells. Adults don't have any embryonic stem cells, but they do still have stem cells ...

Every cell in our body has a sex. But most research so far has focused on our gonads—ovaries or testes—and not on the early ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Adult and embryonic stem cells have enormous therapeutic ... Benjamin Deneen, Ph.D. seeks to unlock the enigmatic biology surrounding glial cell development and function in the brain. His work has ...

Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells are pluripotent stem cells. Brain tissue mechanics influence development and disease. Here, the authors show that LIS1 mutations increase ...

The Deneen Lab seeks to unlock the enigmatic biology surrounding glial cell development ... in the embryonic CNS. Moving towards function, our recent endeavors focused on decoding the cellular and ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal ... glial cells during embryonic and postnatal development. The discovery of pNSCs not only ...