New Control On Blood Vessels In Developing Brain Revealed By Chance Finding

Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Instead, he wanted to see how changing a particular gene in brain cells called glia would affect the growth of neurons. The result was hemorrhage, caused by deteriorating veins and arteries, and it begged for explanation. "It was a surprising finding," says Huang, an assistant professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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