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Regenerative medicine for brain injury: Why new neurons need a support crew

Implanting bare neurons into a damaged brain often fails because the cells struggle to survive. A new lab study shows that packaging them with support cells called astrocytes helps them thrive, wire up, and heal damaged tissue.

By Cruz EM, Soares LC, Greene G, Messore F, Abuelem M, Li M, Andersen C, Domocos M, Vitiello E, Razak RA, Lawston M, Moser G, Vasaturo-Kolodner T, Barkat M, Bill RM, Mann E, Zhou L, Salman MM, Bayley H, Molnár Z, Szele FG.