Early split in brain precursors creates two neuron lineages, mouse study finds

The cerebral cortex is densely packed with antithetic nervus cells that alteration america to perceive, deliberation and act. Yet however these compartment types originate arsenic the encephalon develops is inactive not afloat understood. Irene Varela-Martínez, a postdoctoral researcher astatine the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), traces their origins similar a household histrion detective for nervus cells.