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 E-Mail IMAGE: Neurons in the fruit fly brain are made by passing through various differentiation states, and are segregated into unique subtypes based on the age and cell division number of their. view more  Credit: Nigel Michki Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies, the process starts with stem cells that divide into mother cells (progenitor cells), that then divide into precursor cells that eventually become neurons. A team of the University of Michigan (U-M), spearheaded by Nigel Michki, a graduate student, and Assistant Professor Dawen Cai in the departments of Biophysics (LS&A) and Cell and Developmental Biology at the Medical School, identified many genes that are important in fruit flies neuron development, and that had never been described before in that context.

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