date:Aug 14, 2014
ression and some neurodegenerative disorders.
Dr Barbara Beltz of Wellesley College and her colleagues studied crayfish to understand how new neurons are made in adult organisms. When they marked the cells of one crayfish and used this animal as a blood donor for transfusions into another crayfish, the researchers found that the donor blood cells could generate neurons in the recipient.
These blood cellscalled hemocyteshave functions similar to certain white blood cells in mammals and are prod