The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases

The human brain is not a single organ, but two separate systems that evolved independently before fusing together, according to groundbreaking new research. … Armed with the knowledge of how hindbrain cells uniquely form, the team has successfully turned human stem cells into becoming functional hindbrain motor neurons in a lab for the first time.

    • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      The human brain structure is believed to have once mirrored the nervous networks observed in jellyfish

      It’s a shame that humans didn’t evolve more intelligence than our Jelly friends.