Crayfish have a unique way of generating brain cells- they can actually create them from blood cells, rather than from stem cells like most other animals. It’s a perplexing development even to researchers of this project, but it could mean amazing things for regenerative neurobiology. Kim Horcher, Tim Frisch, and Xander Jeanneret (King of the Nerds season 2, TheStream.TV’s “Under the Table”) discuss.
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