Brains of simple sea animals could help cure neural disorders

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Brains of simple sea animals could help cure neural disorders

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brains-simple-sea-animals-could-help-cure-neural-223337103.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oKUjEOqXoW9qVz4qymlg0w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-21T223337Z_1_LYNXMPEA4K0SN_RTROPTP_2_USA-NATURE-COMBJELLIES.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A comb jelly is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of Whitney laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida" align="left" title="A comb jelly is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of Whitney laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida" border="0" /></a>By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida scientist studying simple sea animals called comb jellies has found the road map to a new form of brain development that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. &quot;There is more than one way to make a brain,&quot; University of Florida researcher Leonid Moroz, who led an international research team, told Reuters. Moroz said his research, published on Wednesday in a report in the magazine Nature, also places comb jelly-like creatures on the first branch of the animal kingdom's &quot;tree of life,&quot; replacing and bumping up sponge-like species from the bottom rung of evolutionary progression.</p><br clear="all"/>

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