The Birth of a Brain Cell: Scientists Witness Neurogenesis

This sounds promising, the researcher hopes that this development will help in finding how neurogenesis relates to illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's, and others.

I wonder how long it will take for them to discover the chemical make-up of the discovery, as of now they can only speculate what makes up the marker.

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For the first time, researchers have developed a way to view stem cells in the brains of living animals, including humans—a finding that allows scientists to follow the process neurogenesis (the birth of neurons). The discovery comes just months after scientists confirmed that such cells are generated in adult as well as developing brains.