“The brain is a complicated organ. Let’s start there. It’s complicated at every level that you care to examine, and if you get down to the genomic sequences of individual neurons, it’s worse than ever. The sheer variety of neurons and other cell types is quite extreme, and a lot of work over the years has gone into trying to figure out how this huge range of morphology and function is generated. “
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The Genomics of Neurons. And Alzheimer’s. And Everything Else. | Science Mag
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