date:Aug 14, 2014
A new study has demonstrated that the immune system can produce cells with stem cell properties that can create different types of cells such as neurons in the adult animal.
Researchers have strived for years to determine how neurons are produced and integrated into the brain throughout adult life. In an intriguing twist, scientists reporting in the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell provide evidence that adult-born neurons are derived from a special type of circulating blood cell produced b