Electrical zap of cells shapes growing brains
Researchers tweaked voltage in frog embryo cell membranes, telling tissue where to grow and even fixing defects
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VOLT JOLT Researchers changed the voltage in frog embryo brain cells (iii) to fix the damage caused by a mutation that makes the brain grow abnormally (ii), and make its development more like that of a normal embryo (i). Markers point to differences in brain development.
Pai et al./Journal of Neuroscience 2015