Neuroscientists isolate gene essential to early brain development

Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 13:35 in Biology & Nature

University of Queensland neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central nervous system.

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