Thanks for the (Cellular) Memories
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English - June 14, 2020 17:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBLife Sciences Science Natural Sciences science research stem science communication biology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Your brain is an extremely complex organ. It needs hundreds of different kinds of cells to work properly - yet, every brain starts as just a small handful of nearly-identical stem cells. How do they figure out, and subsequently remember, what kinds of brain cells to make? Listen to this 5-minute explainer of Maintenance of neural stem cell positional identity by Mixed-lineage leukemia 1, published in the April 03 issue of Science, to find out! Read the paper at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6486/48.
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