Immune cells in the human brain may be critical to orchestrating the organ’s development in the womb because they trigger a dramatic increase in an important type of nerve cell, new research suggests. Estimates suggest that these key cells, known as inhibitory interneurons, make up some 25% to 50% of the neurons in the adult cortex, the wrinkled tissue that …
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