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11 June 2026
Brain's Building Regs
Our brain starts with radial glial cells – they not only form a scaffold around which the brain's cortex is built, they're also the progenitors for the cortical neurons that develop there. Studying mouse tissue and organoids (lab-grown organ models) created from human tissue, this report reveals that the protein FABP7 is essential for maintaining the scaffold and for neurons developing in the right place
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- Image from work by Yuanhao Wang, Xu Zhang and Ru Ba, colleagues
- Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), April 2026
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