Visualizing Formation Of A New Synapse

Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 14:35 in Biology & Nature

A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a new study has found.

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