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Founder cells shape brain evolution

Author(s) -

Jing Liu,

Debra L. Silver

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.045

Subject(s) - biology , human brain , neuroscience , cerebral cortex , progenitor , biological evolution , human evolution , organoid , neuroepithelial cell , evolutionary biology , cortex (anatomy) , progenitor cell , stem cell , microbiology and biotechnology , neural stem cell , genetics

Humans have an extraordinarily expanded and complex cerebral cortex, relative to non-human primates. Yet the mechanisms underlying cortical differences across evolution are unclear. A new study by Benito-Kwiecinski et al. employs cerebral organoids derived across great apes to implicate neuroepithelial progenitor shape transitions in human cortical expansion.

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