A team at the University of Toronto’s Medicine by Design has combined the latest genomic technology with machine learning in a new study that sheds light on brain stem cells, providing insights that could one day help the brain heal itself.

“This research tells us more about how adult neural stem cell sare formed in the brain, which is vital for developing future medical treatments for brain and nervous system injuries,” says Gary Bader, one of the authors and a professor of computer science and molecular genetics at U of T’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research.

The paper, published in a recent issue of Cell Reports, describes how stem cells in the adult brain arise from their parent cells in the developing cortex, the outer layer of the mammalian brain responsible for cognitive function.

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