New Technique Provides Insights Into the Evolution of the Brain

Summary: H3 acetylation of basal neural precursor cells may have been an important factor in the evolution of the human neocortex.

As humans, we have a large and intricately folded neocortex that accounts for many of our intellectual abilities and sets us apart from all other species. A research team headed by Dr. Tran Tuoc from the Department of Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has identified an important factor that could have led to this brain development in the course of evolution: the so-called H3 acetylation of basal neural precursor cells.

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New Technique Provides Insights Into the Evolution of the Brain