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Renewing This Old Brain - Dr. Jean Hebert

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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The Power of Plasticity in the Brain

Brain that's in your skull, the brain that's in my school, no scientists or engineer made that. It came from a rather simple cheat or a few sheets of cells early in fetal development. We don't have to know how to put together all those mature structures. We can use this very immature structure and let it do what it normally does. To date, our lab and many others have been transplanting these fetal light cells. They do remarkably well in the adult environment after transplantation.

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