A team of IRCM researchers, led by Dr. Frédéric Charron,
recently uncovered a nerve cell’s internal clock, used during embryonic
development. The discovery was made in collaboration with Dr. Alyson Fournier’s
laboratory at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Published today in the
prestigious scientific journal Neuron, this breakthrough could lead to the
development of new tools to repair and regenerate nerve cells following
injuries to the central nervous system.
Researchers in Dr. Charron’s laboratory study neurons, which
are the nerve cells that make up the central nervous system (brain and spinal
cord). They want to better understand how neurons navigate through the
developing embryo to arrive at their correct destination.