Switching mouse neural stem cells to a primate-like behavior
Sunday, August 9, 2015 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
When the right gene is expressed in the right manner in the right population of stem cells, the developing mouse brain can exhibit primate-like features. Researchers succeeded in mimicking the sustained expression of the transcription factor Pax6 as seen in the developing human brain, in mouse cortical progenitor cells.