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University researchers published in Cell additional findings with the hedgehog molecule, showing selective generation of brain cells in the ventral forebrain, an area damaged in Alzheimer's disease.

Cells transfected to make the hedgehog protein, co-cultured with explants of prospective forebrain tissue from chick embryos, triggered differentiation of the embryonic tissue into cell types typical of the ventral midbrain and forebrain. ...