{"id":205945,"date":"2025-02-09T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/stem-cells-in-the-brain-use-childlike-signals-to-trigger-regeneration"},"modified":"2025-02-09T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T06:06:36","slug":"stem-cells-in-the-brain-use-childlike-signals-to-trigger-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/stem-cells-in-the-brain-use-childlike-signals-to-trigger-regeneration","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cells in the Brain Use Childlike Signals to Trigger Regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stem-cells-in-the-brain-use-childlike-signals-to-trigger-regeneration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia. This parent-child relationship helps regulate brain regeneration and repair.<\/p>\n<p>The study also reveals that calcium signaling plays a key role in how NSCs decode multiple signals from their environment. If NSCs produce only a few daughter cells, they activate; if they produce many, they stay dormant.<\/p>\n<p>These findings challenge previous assumptions that NSCs function independently and open new avenues for treating neurodevelopmental disorders. Future research will explore how these processes change in aging and disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia. This parent-child relationship helps regulate brain regeneration and repair. The study also reveals that calcium signaling plays a key role in how NSCs decode multiple signals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}