The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of your brain’s surface, located on top of the cerebrum. ... The cerebral cortex is made up of 14 to 16 billion nerve cells.

The stem cell is similar to a human stem cell identified by the same UCSF laboratory research group last year. The cell nucleus moves in an unusual way, the researchers found. The movements may ...

The progenitor cells for the cortex are born in a zone deep in the brain, and migrate to their assigned layer, depending on the time they are born. So a cortical cell's identity is based on the ...

Area-Specific Reestablishment of Damaged Circuits in the Adult Cerebral Cortex by Cortical Neurons Derived from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. Neuron , 2015; 85 (5): 982 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.001 ...

The researchers discovered that cells in the cerebral cortex of mice, called astrocytes, are more diverse than previously thought, with distinct layers of astrocytes across the cerebral cortex ...

Scientists have identified a gene in the cerebral cortex that apparently controls the developmental clock of embryonic nerve cells, a finding that could open another door to tissue replacement ...

The researchers, who published a paper entitled “Astrocyte layers in the mammalian cerebral cortex revealed by a single-cell in situ transcriptomic map,” in Nature Neuroscience, believe their ...

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have identified a new stem cell population that may be responsible for giving birth to the neurons responsible for higher thinking. The finding also ...

The neocortex is part of the human brain’s cerebral cortex where higher cognitive functioning is ... one layer of axon endings and apical dendrites from cortical neurons plus five cell layers.

Furthermore, human ES cell and iPS cell differentiation to cerebral cortex recapitulated in vivo development to generate all classes of cortical projection neurons in a fixed temporal order.