Melissa Cooper joins TWiN to discuss her discovery that astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks.

Guest: Melissa Cooper

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• Astrocytes form plastic networks (Nature)
• Newly found brain network (Nature)
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TWiN unpacks a striking paradox, that the very cell divisions that built the human brain's most advanced layers also put them at greatest risk, and how a dedicated DNA repair pathway saves them.

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• Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair (Nature)
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TWiN explains the finding that vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via synthesis of a sphingosine derivative on neonatal skin.

.Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung

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• Vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits (Cell Host Microbe)
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