The Rice research is supported in part by President Barack Obama's $300 million BRAIN Initiative, which is modeled after the Human Genome Project.

The research "opens up a huge door to better understanding the brain," Qutub said.

Like many other people around the world, Qutub has seen how a stroke or a disease such as Alzheimer's can disrupt brain function, and she hopes this research will one day provide better treatment.

"We are understanding the mechanism of how these cells can grow back, and with it we can identify better drugs and better targets from the basic science work," she said.

For now, the research team is focused on developing a dynamic computer model that can help analyze interactions in the world's most complex mechanism.

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progenitor：起源

nanotechnology：纳米技术

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