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Researchers used color-coded proteins to reveal the identity of the cells in the organoids they produced. In four organoids that simulate the embryo’s central nervous system, the magenta marks proteins associated with the development of the forebrain and the midbrain, the green, the hindbrain and the red, the center of the spinal cord

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Peripheral sensory neurons in a laboratory dish

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A protein facilitating nerve cell repair in the peripheral nervous system might one day point to treatments for neurodegenerative diseases...

Sensory axons induced to prune by trophic withdrawal in vitro

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Prof. Michal Schwartz

Developing New Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

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New therapies for spinal cord injury based on original concepts proposed by Prof. Michal Schwartz are being developed and tested in clinical...

Dr. Avraham Yaron. sensory neuron guidance system

Right On Target

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Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development

Dr. Avraham Yaron asks how our nervous systems get wired

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