Blogger Mo Costandi helps me understand a lot of the neurogenesis/stem cell work done by research labs.
This one has some great ideas needing followup.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2011/dec/04/1
A selected paragraph:
Growing a complete, functioning brain is unfeasible, but there is real potential in growing functional neural tissue containing specific types of cells, for transplantation into the human brain. This is one avenue of research that the team are investigating. Last year, they showed that ES cells can be coaxed to differentiate into functional cerebellar Purkinje cells, which integrate themselves into the brain when transplanted into mouse foetuses.
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