Researchers identify critical gene for brain development, mental retardation

Friday, September 4, 2009 - 11:49 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have now discovered that establishing the neural wiring necessary to function normally depends on the ability of neurons to make finger-like projections of their membrane called filopodia.

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