{"id":211943,"date":"2025-04-20T22:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/naqi-northeastern-university-scientists-have-discovered-that-a-protein-in-the-human-brain-could-potentially-be-used-to-grow-new-neurons-in-the-lab-and-enhance-brain-processes-affected-by-aging-or-neu"},"modified":"2025-04-20T22:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:06:38","slug":"naqi-northeastern-university-scientists-have-discovered-that-a-protein-in-the-human-brain-could-potentially-be-used-to-grow-new-neurons-in-the-lab-and-enhance-brain-processes-affected-by-aging-or-neu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/naqi-northeastern-university-scientists-have-discovered-that-a-protein-in-the-human-brain-could-potentially-be-used-to-grow-new-neurons-in-the-lab-and-enhance-brain-processes-affected-by-aging-or-neu","title":{"rendered":"NAQI: Northeastern University scientists have discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new neurons in the lab and enhance brain processes affected by aging or neurodegenerative diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/naqi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2949907024000627#abs0010\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Mechanobiology in Medicine<\/i><\/a>, the researchers discovered that the protein responsible for binding neural stem cells in the human brain, neuro-cadherin, also plays a key role in stimulating their differentiation.<\/p>\n<p>Neural stem cells are early-stage, unspecialized cells that have the ability to differentiate, or develop, into various types of neurons and non-neuronal cells of the central nervous system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their study, published in Mechanobiology in Medicine, the researchers discovered that the protein responsible for binding neural stem cells in the human brain, neuro-cadherin, also plays a key role in stimulating their differentiation. Neural stem cells are early-stage, unspecialized cells that have the ability to differentiate, or develop, into various types of neurons and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211943","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\/211943","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}