{"id":861,"date":"2023-08-10T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pediatricbrainfoundation.org\/archive\/brain-cell-growth\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:23:13","slug":"brain-cell-growth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pediatricbrainfoundation.org\/archive\/brain-cell-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Cell Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<section class=\"content-top span12\">\n      <a id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Brain Cell Growth<\/h1>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<section class=\"main-content span12\">\n<section id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block-system block-page-content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"section-in\">\n<div class=\"section-inn\">\n<div class=\"section-innn\">\n<div class=\"term-listing-heading\">\n<div id=\"taxonomy-term-3246\" class=\"taxonomy-term vocabulary-tags\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"node-6362\" class=\"node node-science-article node-teaser clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"node-title clearfix\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricbrainfoundation.org\/archive\/educate\/science-news\/humans-big-brains-might-be-due-part-newly-identified-protein\/\">Humans\u2019 Big Brains Might Be Due in Part to Newly Identified Protein<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"submitted\">\n            <span class=\"created\">Wednesday, November 12, 2014<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/120771\/humans\u2019-big-brains-might-be-due-part-newly-identified-protein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of California, San Francisco<\/a>    <\/div>\n<p>  <!--\nTHIS FILE IS NOT USED AND IS HERE AS A STARTING POINT FOR CUSTOMIZATION ONLY.\nSee http:\/\/api.drupal.org\/api\/function\/theme_field\/7 for details.\nAfter copying this file to your theme's folder and customizing it, remove this\nHTML comment.\n--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\" class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"tkgyxz44ddvou8s4e\">A protein that may partly explain why human brains are larger than those of other animals has been identified by scientists from two stem-cell labs at UC San Francisco, in research published in the November 13, 2014 issue of Nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tkgyxz44ddvou8s4e\">Key experiments by the UCSF researchers revealed that the protein, called PDGFD, is made in growing brains of humans, but not in mice, and appears necessary for normal proliferation of human brain stem cells growing in a lab dish.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p> <!-- \/.node -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <!-- \/.block --><br \/>\n      <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain Cell Growth Humans\u2019 Big Brains Might Be Due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_2.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.6 - 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