A simple skin cells, to the hands of scientists, such as through a variety of techniques to restore the cloned embryonic stem cells to become growth and development; and the human body as the most complex system - the brain, and its dynamic neural stem cells can also human intervention through the development of new neurons in the brain injury rehabilitation in order to achieve the desired effect?

today, Shanghai scientists plagued the world of the brain for many years the scientific community the core issue of put forward their views, from Shanghai Fudan University of Brain Science study Dr. Yang Zhengang hospital group led the successful discovery of neural stem cells in nerve regeneration in a unique way, through the intervention of artificial neural stem cell migration and transplantation in the treatment of a variety of brain injury disease opened up new ideas, relevant research results published in today's issue of internationally renowned academic journal "Journal of Neuroscience ", and become shocked the West in the field of brain science research highlight article.

stem cell institute, the first impression most people is commonly known as "bone marrow" of the hematopoietic stem cells, Science have found home in the human brain has neural stem cells for life, they are able to differentiate into a neural yuan, myelin cells, nerve cells and many other types of special cells, to a certain extent similar to the hematopoietic function of bone marrow. However, the extraordinary people after brain injury in the event is not conducted in self-repair, which has so far produced a number of human medicine can not cure brain diseases, such as patients with up to four million of the global Parkinson's disease. How to make rational use of neural stem cells to repair and cure of disease to achieve the purpose, it has also become the world's long-standing mysteries of brain-disciplinary scholars.

appear in Shanghai today, the latest research results, it can be said that the amendment from another angle, the scientists to study the issue of the existence of one-sided understanding. According to Dr. Yang Zhengang introduced by the experimental study found that the success of the human brain can not repair themselves, why is not the number of neural stem cells volume little, but these neural stem cells in the human body is different from other stem cells, can not develop into the nervous system required for the reconstruction of the specific types of neurons. In other words, the brain of human neural stem cells can only produce a certain type of neurons, and the human body known as the most complex system, the brain has the largest number of types of cells and neurons, stem cell production alone can not achieve its own repair of.

"human brain is very complex, even if we found the existence of neural stem cells and characteristics, it does not mean that we can through a simple transplantation of neural stem cells to treat brain diseases."杨振纲said, "But Our discovery means that a birth of new ideas. Maybe one day, the human neural stem cells through the intervention of technology to repair brain damage, but in any case, the master of this technology to the needs of long-term and unremitting hard work . "

This reporter has learned that in the global scientific community, the stem cell research and clinical treatment has been controversial because of the special type of cell, its characteristics and not all scientists have. Brain Science Institute of Fudan University, director of Academic Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Yang Xiong told reporters, in view of the Chinese scientists who research alternative, the future of mankind will eventually have the ability to become neural stem cells in the treatment of diseases of the brain and beneficial tool.