Capturing the birth of a synapse

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 23:56 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential information. Mutations of genes that produce a critical cell-adhesion molecule involved in the work were previously linked to autism.

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