Human adult olfactory bulb neurogenesis? Novelty is the best policy.
There is ongoing controversy as to whether the understanding of adult mammalian neurogenesis gained from rodent studies is applicable to humans. In this issue of Neuron, Bergmann et al. (2012) propose that adult human olfactory bulb neurogenesis with long-term neuronal survival is extremely limited.
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. jeffrey_macklis@harvard.edu
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