This Week in Neuroscience

TWiN 11: A dollar per neuron


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Maria joins TWiN to explain how single-cell transcriptomics is being used to reveal the evolution of the brain, at a cost of about $1 per neuron.

Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Andres Bendesky, and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Maria Tosches

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Links for this episode

  • Single-cell transcriptomics of reptile cortex (Science)
  • Innovations in primate interneurons (Nature)
  • Human versus mouse cortex (Nature)
  • Letters read on TWiN 11
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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