«We wondered if these neurons were actually altering the way the vasculature forms and behaves,» said TSRI Research Associate Peter Westenskow,
co-first author of the new paper with TSRI Research Associate Yoshihiko Usui.
«But then we started to see something more,» says Shani Stern, a Salk research associate and
co-first author of the new paper.
«Those approaches take a long time, it is difficult to isolate a pure population, and the NPC - like cells are still transient,» says Zhongwei Li, a research associate in the Izpisua Belmonte lab and
co-first author of the new paper.
Martin Kuhlwilm,
co-first author of the new paper, identified the regions of the Altai Neanderthal genome that come from modern humans.
«This protein is highly expressed in the nervous system and has an integral role in neuronal development,» said Elizabeth Wilson - Kubalek, senior staff scientist in Professor Ron Milligan's laboratory at TSRI and
co-first author of the new paper with Christopher Garnham and Annapurna Vemu of the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Kuhlwilm was
co-first author of the new paper with Ilan Gronau, a former member of Siepel's Lab who is now at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, Israel.
Not exact matches
«There's an ongoing need to develop
new gene synthesis techniques,» said Calin Plesa, a UCLA postdoctoral research fellow and
co-first author of the
paper.
The
new study redefines what it means to be a topological material, according to Su - Yang Xu, a graduate student in Hasan's lab and
co-first author of the May 7
paper with postdoctoral research associate Madhab Neupane at Princeton and Raman Sankar
of National Taiwan University.