During development, neural stem cells in the spinal ... cords revealed new insights into the behaviors of ependymal and astrocyte cells following SCI, highlighting their dynamic roles in spinal ...

Zhang studies astrocytes because they are the most common glial cell in the brain and because they are neurons’ next of kin. “During development, neural stem cells generate neurons first and later go ...

and affect neuronal development and plasticity. Rabah et al. elegantly show that, in Drosophila, astrocytes signal to neurons with hydrogen peroxide to encode memories. This redox-based ...

“Ben put a lot of effort into developing the cell culture protocols so that the starting astrocytes were physiological or otherwise normal,” said Tesar. “Understanding that if we could mimic at least ...

Sphere of Influence. In iAssembloids, microglia (red) form projections (white arrows), while astrocytes (green) assume star shapes typically found in the brain. [Courtesy of Kampmann et al., 2025.] ...

The research team discovered that, during spinal cord development, ependymal cells ... regenerative potential in primates. In contrast, astrocytes in the injured spinal cord exhibited significant ...