Hardly a day passes when we don’t come across new revelations on human brain. Researchers and neuroscientists recently revealed new facts about the Insula and devised a brain scan that could help read people’s intentions.

Now, researchers from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden have found a new type of brain cell that continuously regenerates in humans.

A group of “resting cells” migrate to create new nerve cells in the part of the brain dealing with smell. Though this system has been explained earlier in mice and rats, it was taken that nothing such happens inside a human brain. Now, the disclose may probably open new doors for advanced research into repairing brains in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, said:

This process raises exciting new questions for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, such as whether stem cells could be stimulated into action when the brain has been injured.

The new experiments done with the human brain and the exciting revelations that these researches bring out are indeed of great significance since these may help a lot in reining in a number of deadly diseases.

Via: bbc