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Why humans have such big brains

Published on 6 April, 2021

The Guardian covers how Madeline Lancaster’s group in the Cell Biology division has used brain organoids to trace the origin of human’s larger brain size to the ZEB2 gene, which ‘switches on’ in early cerebral development. More…