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Neurogenesis right under your nose

Nature Neuroscience volume 23, pages 297–298 (2020)Cite this article

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Postmortem studies have previously suggested that adult olfactory neurogenesis occurs in humans. In new research, Durante and colleagues obtained fresh tissue from healthy adult humans via endoscopic nasal surgery and used single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to identify the entire neurogenic trajectory in the olfactory epithelium, confirming the existence of human olfactory neurogenesis.

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Thomas Berger, Hyunah Lee.

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  1. Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

    Thomas Berger, Hyunah Lee & Sandrine Thuret

  2. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Sandrine Thuret

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Berger, T., Lee, H. & Thuret, S. Neurogenesis right under your nose. Nat Neurosci 23, 297–298 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0596-8

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