Sign in

Jing Liu

@jingliu1129.bsky.social
29 followers 39 following 1 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Jing Liu
Nature @nature.com · 14/05/2025
Taking a snippet of genetic code that is unique to humans and inserting it into mice helps them grow bigger brains than usual go.nature.com/3GOTQkz
go.nature.com
Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA
Finding adds to the bigger picture of how humans developed such large brains.
4519
Reposted by Jing Liu
Debby Silver @debbysilver.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis - Nature
HARE5, a human accelerated region enhancer, modulates cortical development by influencing neural progenitor cell behaviour, leading to an enlarged neocortex with increased functional independence betw...
1916967