In mice, at about embryonic day (E) 8.5, these cells begin to take on the characteristics of radial glia. During the ensuing phase of neurogenesis, the radial glial cells divide asymmetrically to ...

“This is where we first saw the abundance of basal radial glia—but not in the Neanderthal version,” Pinson says. The team then ran the same test on ferrets, the brains of which more closely resemble a ...

Radial glia in the ventricular zone (VZ) of the developing cortex divide asymmetrically, producing a self-renewing radial glial cell that remains in the VZ and a cell that differentiates into a ...