Santa Cruz Tech Beat

Featured

Genes found only in humans influence brain size

By Tim Stephens
UC Santa Cruz, CA

June 5, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA

(Photo above: Graduate student Gary Mantalas works with cortical organoids grown from embryonic stem cells in Sofie Salama’s lab at UC Santa Cruz. Credit: C. Lagattuta)

New genes arose in human ancestors just before a dramatic increase in brain size and are involved in genetic defects associated with neurological disorders

Tagged ,

Related Posts

Sign up for our free weekly email digest!

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Follow Now

Facebook Feed

This message is only visible to admins.
Problem displaying Facebook posts.
Click to show error
Error: Server configuration issue