Fetal Neurons Found in Adult Brain

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Fetal Neurons Found in Adult Brain

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Sep 13, 2007

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Special cells that control the wiring of a fetus' brain were thought to die off shortly after birth. But scientists have found some of these pre-natal neurons surviving, and communicating, in the adult brain.

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Sep 13, 2007

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