Key To Sonic Hedgehog Control Of Brain Development Found

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 11/07/2008 - 09:15

Researchers have discovered how the expression of the Sonic hedgehog gene is regulated during brain development and how mutations that alter this process cause brain malformations.


 

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