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Taking well over an hour, he carved off 136 paper-thin sections. Allman was searching for a peculiar kind of brain cell that he suspects is a key to how the African elephant—like a human being ...

These cells share important molecular and functional characteristics with neural stem cells of the brain. Peripheral neural stem cells ... for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and nerve ...

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