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Long-Term Maintenance of Neuronal Identi...

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In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we talked with Tomohisa Toda from the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin about his work on the long-term maintenance of neuronal identity, with a focus on epigenetic and RNA-based mechanisms in brain stability and aging. Dr. Toda describes how brain circuits are stabilized over time, why critical periods a ... Show More
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