These new neurons had developed from neural progenitor cells, a type of undifferentiated neuron akin to a stem cell, in a process scientists call neurogenesis.
There are three types of neuroblastomas, and they're categorized based on the size and shape of the tumor cells: undifferentiated, poorly differentiated, and differentiating neuroblastoma.
In frogs, gene activity showed that even when an embryo looks like an undifferentiated blob-- cells are already starting down the paths to their eventual identities.
An undifferentiated neuroblastoma is mostly comprised of neural crest cells, which are sometimes called small round blue cells, due to a lack of cytoplasm, and a large blue nuclei.
Some brain cells have a limited ability to be replaced, especially during injury, and they do it by having undifferentiated stem cells - called embryonic stem cells - in the brain activate and mature into a specialized cell.