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Neanderthal Brain Organoids Show How a Single Gene Alteration May Have Separated Modern Humans From Predecessors – SciTechDaily

Novel study used brain organoids genetically modified to mimic now-extinct Neanderthals. As a professor of pediatrics and cellular and molecular medicine at University…

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Neanderthal-ized brain organoids (left) look very different than modern human brain organoids (right) — they have a distinctly different shape, and differ in the way their cells proliferate and how their synapses form. Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences
Novel study used brain organoids genetically modified to mimic now-extinct Neanderthals.
As a professor of pediatrics and cellular and molecular medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Alysson R. Muotri, PhD, has long…

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