Novel analysis sheds new light on the mechanisms of brain development
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have taken an important step in identifying how the brain organizes itself during development. The findings, published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology today, describe in more detail than ever before the consequences of the loss of a key molecule involved in establishing proper brain architecture during brain development.
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