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The cerebral cortex of the human brain is crucial and complex, and includes different subtypes of neuron that need to be specified during development. How this process is regulated is unclear. In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Nano et al. curate and mine a compendium cell atlas of human cortical development to identify gene programs that drive neuron subtype specification and validate a mechanism using brain organoid models.
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