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Is the brain actually 2 nervous systems smooshed together? A new study claims it is.
Recent research challenges a long-standing idea about how the brain develops: Rather than arising from a single source, the brain may emerge from two distinct populations of cells, the study finds."The brain appears as one organ," said study co-author Kyle Loh, an associate professor of developmental biology at Stanford University. "However, we discovered that the front part of the brain and the back part of the brain come from different sources, which are pushed together to create the appearance of a single organ," Loh told Live Science in an email.The findings, published in September in the journal Nature Neuroscience, not only challenge established models of how the brain forms but may al...
