Senior author Steven McCarroll said mice have 'nothing like' the newly identified primate interneuron.
Sources
- New Interneuron | Harvard Medical School (hms.harvard.edu)
- https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/new-neuron-type-discovered-only-primate-brains (broadinstitute.org)
- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-neuron-primate-brains.html (medicalxpress.com)
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