A study of the epigenetic enzyme Pr-set7/Set8 by researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore has shown it to play a key role in stimulating neural stem cells (NSCs) from their quiescent state, enabling their proliferation and the generation of new neurons.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute have spurred neural stem cells to produce myelin-forming oligodendrocytes, facilitating repair after spinal cord injury.