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A shared origin for cortical excitatory neurons and interneurons

A molecular barcoding tool has been developed to trace the developmental descendants of radial glial cells — the neural progenitors of the human cerebral cortex. The technique shows that these cortical progenitors give rise to both excitatory neurons and interneurons in the human brain.

This is a summary of Delgado, R. N et al. Individual human cortical progenitors can produce excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04230-7 (2021).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03664-3

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