The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵

Check out our latest review exploring 🧠 Vesicular Trafficking: At the Crossroads of Neurodevelopment, Neurodegeneration, and Cell Communication. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel... @humantechnopole.bsky.social #Taverna_lab

Frontiers | Vesicular trafficking and cell-cell communication in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration

Regulation of vesicle biology and trafficking plays a critical role in cell viability. Vesicular trafficking is a process that entails vesicle biogenesis, tr...

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Thrilled that Sir Mel Greaves will be our next speaker for the @humantechnopole.bsky.social External Seminar Series on June 5th. Thanks to Andrea Sottoriva for hosting! For external people wanting to join, please see: forms.office.com/e/dtD3NcRKMN.

That’s a wrap on three amazing days at #NeuroGen25 in Milan! Packed with brilliant talks, mind-blowing discoveries, and some seriously inspiring Meet the Speakers sessions. Brain = buzzing. Grazie! @humantechnopole.bsky.social

An exciting day for the neurodevelopment field in Milan — we’re thrilled to kick off the very first Neurogenomics Conference at @humantechnopole.bsky.social! Looking forward to groundbreaking insights and collaborations. #neurogen25

Nature research paper: A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis https://go.nature.com/4kfH6BC

A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis - Nature

HARE5, a human accelerated region enhancer, modulates cortical development by influencing neural progenitor cell behaviour, leading to an enlarged neocortex with increased functional independence between cortical regions through amplified WNT signalling.

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💜 Gender equality is fundamental to excel in research & innovation! 🎉On #IWD2025 we are proud to present our new Gender Equality Plan. This plan strengthens our commitment to gender equality in research & workplace, fostering inclusivity & excellence 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/news/huma...

Tomatoes lose their bitterness and toxicity as they ripen thanks to DNA demethylation, the hormone ethylene, and key transcription factors, finds a new #ScienceAdvances study. scim.ag/4bfdr8u

Removal of toxic steroidal glycoalkaloids and bitterness in tomato is controlled by a complex epigenetic and genetic network

A complex regulatory network controls the removal of toxic steroidal glycoalkaloids during tomato ripening.

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Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes

The amniote pallium contains sensory circuits that are structurally and functionally equivalent, yet their evolutionary relationship remains unresolved. We used birthdating analysis, single-cell RNA a...

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