A Key Gene for Brain Development

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 16:01 in Biology & Nature

Neurobiologists at the Research institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have discovered one of the key genes required to make a brain. Mutations in this gene, called TUBB5, cause neurodevelopmental disease in children.

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