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Astrocytes help understand human brain evolution

Astrocytes, the guardians of neuronal functions, appear to have a more significant role in brain evolution than previously thought. The team led by Professor Aleksandra Pękowska, head of the Dioscuri Centre for Chromatin Biology and Epigenomics at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw, reveals new genes and mechanisms contributing to this process. The group's work has just been published in Cell Stem Cell.   Astrocytes, in contrast to neurons, do not conduct ...