Fantastic review about neocortical expansion from Soraia Barão and Ulrich Müller!!

Trends in Neurosciences@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Check out the February 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Cover article: ‘Basal progenitors as drivers of neocortical expansion’, by Soraia Barão & Ulrich Müller www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

🐈El #CSIC y la Universidad Complutense logran producir por primera vez embriones de #linceIbérico en el laboratorio 🔬 Este hito se ha logrado gracias a la fecundación 'in vitro' de ovocitos de hembras fallecidas en accidentes y espermatozoides criopreservados ➡️http://tiny.cc/wufw001

What makes humans uniquely human? A single amino acid change in an enzyme may hold part of the answer. Xiangchun Ju and Svante Pääbo discuss how a tiny genetic mutation shaped the human brain and behavior. Listen now: https://ow.ly/92CO50Xghm5

Check out this superb, beautiful and insightful work from @silvianeuro.bsky.social lab led by my brilliant colleague @mveronicapravata.bsky.social! What a thrill to learn about key biochemical changes across evolution contributing to drive brain formation😊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DCHS1 Modulates Forebrain Proportions in Modern Humans via a Glycosylation Change

Comparative anatomical studies of primates and extinct hominins, including Neanderthals, show that the modern human brain is characterised by a disproportionately enlarged neocortex relative to the st...

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🥁Out on @emboreports.org 👉mTOR controls ependymal cell differentiation by targeting the alternative cell cycle and centrosomal proteins 🔗 embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-025-00460-2 👏Congratulations to Alexia Bankolé, Ayush Srivastava, Nathalie Spassky and all authors and collaborators!

What a fantastic talk by @silvianeuro.bsky.social at @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social a couple of days ago! Super grateful and excited of having become part of your team as a postdoc at @bmc-lmu.bsky.social