One Small Mutation Can Disrupt Brain Growth for Life

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life. Why do some children develop a brain that is smaller than expected (microcephaly)? An international team of scientists from the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover Medical School (MHH), and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular [...]

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