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Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

or that Sp1 controls ephrin expression in relevant motor neuron populations. The study will be of broad interest to developmental neurobiologists. The complex organization of neural circuits, which ...

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Our results indicate that aberrant midline crossing by motor neuron cell bodies and axons in mice lacking Robo1 and Robo2 are not interdependent and that DCC contributes to axon, but not cell body ...