ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from University of Georgia. University of Georgia is a public research university with major strengths in agriculture, veterinary medicine, infectious disease, ecology, genetics, engineering, public health, and the biological sciences. Its researchers investigate areas including food security, animal and human health, climate and environmental change, genomics, artificial intelligence, and sustainable agriculture, combining fundamental and applied research to address challenges in health, technology, agriculture, and the environment.
A screen of 74 genes in planarian flatworms found 10 needed to rebuild dopamine-producing neurons, work the authors say could improve stem cell therapies for brain injury or disease, though nothing has been tested beyond worms.