Partner Content | Meet the U of T neuroscientist helping the brain heal itself - The Peterborough Examiner

As a graduate student, Cindi Morshead figured out where stem cells could be hiding in the brain. Now, as scientists mark World Brain Day, she explains how gene therapies could soon regrow neurons lost to stroke and give patients reason to hope.

Back in the early 1990s, when 30,000 eager attendees filed into the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, the talk of the conference was Samuel Weiss’s jaw-dropping discovery of neural stem cell… [+6117 chars]

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