This finding reassured the team that their methodology was effective, partly because unrelated previous work had already discovered associations between cilia organization and neural stem cell ...

During neurogenesis, stem cells become non-specialized neural progenitor cells, which in turn produce specific kinds of neurons. The bulk of neurogenesis happens during the prenatal period of ...

As it turns out, as it has for fetal neural progenitor cells, Zika virus has tropism for adult proliferative neural progenitor cells and immature neurons. The team’s results were published today ...