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Building a bigger brain

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An innovative approach to analysing the functions and gene-expression profiles of neural stem cells in developing human and mouse brains sheds light on the differences — and similarities — between the two species. See Letter p.264

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Figure 1: Transcriptional control in radial glia.

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  1. Forrest O. Gulden and Nenad Šestan are in the Departments of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience and Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.,

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