Saturday, August 22, 2015

PTBP1

Why you’re smarter than a chicken
August 21, 2015

(credit: Johnathan Nightingale via Flickr) A single molecular event in a protein called PTBP1 in our cells could hold the key to how we evolved to become the smartest animal on the planet, University of Toronto researchers have discovered. The conundrum: Humans and frogs, for example, have been evolving separately for 350 million years and use a remarkably similar repertoire … more…

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