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Discuss “Unclouding the human brain”

Biomedical engineering professor Stefan Zappe and his research team are developing a neural stem cell therapy to treat a variety of genetic disorders of the central nervous system, including Hunter syndrome.

Stem cells are primal cells that retain the ability to renew themselves and multiply through cell division. These cells can also differentiate into a diverse range of cell types.

Zappe said, “It’s like a wild card,” speaking of neural stem cells.

Adult stem cells are found in adult tissue and act as a bodily repair mechanism because they can be matured into specialized cells when these cells become injured.

According to a Carnegie Mellon press release, Zappe and his collaborator Raymond Sekula, a neurosurgeon at Allegheny General...

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