Discovery of Unique Neural Stem Cell

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A recent discovery by a team of researchers at the Sloan-Kettering Institute has discovered a unique type of neural stem cell, which has a larger differentiation potential than other neural stem cells that have recently been studied. Neural stem cells, also known as NSCs, can easily differentiate, or morph, into neural and glial subtypes.
To date, this ability to differentiate into various region specific neuronal cell types is rather limited. However, Dr. Lorenz Studer of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, and his colleagues, were able to isolate and clone a population of these neural cells called neural rosette cells that can expand the neuronal subtype potential.

As such, these neural rosette cells are capable of re-creating cellular diversity in nervous systems of mammals. As a matter of fact, Dr. Scooter explained that these cells, "Should have a major impact for applications in regenerative medicine and have the potential to become the embryonic stem cell equivalent of the nervous system."

Such developments and discoveries are making extreme headway in the development of procedures and techniques to not only treat, but also to potentially cure, conditions and diseases that applied to mankind for thousands of years.

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