brain-development
2 stories tagged "brain-development"
Brain & Aging
Your Brain Has 170 Billion Cells and No Blueprint. Here's How One Cell Pulls It Off.
For fifty years the textbook said chemical gradients tell brain cells where to go. A new model says cells inherit their address from their family tree instead.
Brain & AgingTwelve Genes, One Overlooked Neuron, and the Rett Brain That Was Already Off Course
A Baylor team's single-cell map of female Rett mice finds 12 dysregulated genes and a previously unsuspected vulnerable interneuron, weeks before any symptom appears.