title: Do your glial cells make you clever?
abstract: The cellular basis for cognition is generally believed to derive from neurons. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Han et al. (2013) transplant human glial progenitors into mouse brains and thereby improve their learning and memory and implicate a previously unknown role for glial cells in contributing to cognition.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK. rjf1000@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Robin J M
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Bussey