New genes linked with bigger brains identified

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 05:21 in Biology & Nature

A number of new links between families of genes and brain size have been identified by UK scientists, opening up a whole new avenue of research to better understand brain development and diseases like dementia. A team of scientists from the Universities of Bath and Lincoln compared the genomes of 28 mammals with differing sizes […]

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