Stanford Study: Brain Is Two Separate Organs

Stanford Medicine research overturns the single-progenitor model of brain development, finding the front and back of the brain arise from two distinct neural ectoderm progenitors: a primitive nervous system and the part enabling higher cognition. It may aid research into brainstem diseases like SMA and ALS.

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