When is a neuron “born”? (VIDEO)

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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Neşet Özel, Ph.D., explains the moment a developing cell becomes a neuron. Neurons arise from dividing progenitor cells, but after their final, or terminal, cell division, they stop dividing and commit to becoming neurons. That transition marks the point at which scientists consider a neuron to be “born.”

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