The human brain is not a single organ, but two separate systems that evolved independently before fusing together, according to groundbreaking new research. ... Armed with the knowledge of how hindbrain cells uniquely form, the team has successfully turned human stem cells into becoming functional hindbrain motor neurons in a lab for the first time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 So from the abstract of the paper they use two different techniques. Lineage tracing studies in mouse embryos and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells. Both these techniques are not even decades old at this moment.

[–] Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662771v2.full

The non-paywalled non-peer reviewed older version of this article.