🧠 What makes human brains different from those of other animals?

Allen Discovery Center leader @ChrisAWalsh1's team found a human-specific effect in evolution on one gene that slows the pace of our brain cells' growth during development. #FrontierScience
alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/fro…
Check out the newly published research by Allen Discovery Center leader @ChrisAWalsh1's team: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

📃Rewiring of human neurodevelopmental gene regulatory programs by human accelerated regions @BostonChildrens @harvardmed
The scientists also collated the known 3,171 human accelerated regions into a single, open-access dataset that they hope will be of use to other scientists interested in human evolution. #OpenScience

genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrac…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Allen Institute

Allen Institute Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @AllenInstitute

31 Oct 19
In a new study out in @nature, our researchers make a big step forward in our quest to map the brain. Study findings lay the groundwork to better understand brain disorders & diseases such as #Alzheimers and #schizophrenia.

alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/bra…
This new study describes a high-resolution expansion of our #openscience Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas-- the most detailed map of connections in a mammalian brain to date. Access via: connectivity.brain-map.org
Using a computational approach, our researchers found that different sections of the cortex and thalamus can be mapped into a hierarchy, much like a company’s org chart – although not all connections followed this hierarchical structure. #brainmapping
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(