Developing Fetal Brain Weeds Out Genetically Flawed Neurons
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Summary
Why does the prenatal brain overproduce millions of neurons only to eliminate them? A landmark Nature study led by Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital shows that the developing brain uses competitive synaptic pruning to weed out neurons carrying abnormal DNA mutations.
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