Caption: The discovery of a gene that serves as a master regulator of human brain development will make it far easier for scientists to forge neurons like these in the lab dish for transplant and for modeling diseases of the brain and central nervous system. The influence of the gene on human brain development was discovered in the Waisman Center laboratory of University of Wisconsin–Madison neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang.
Photo: courtesy Su-Chun Zhang
Date: posted July 2010
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