Previous work has developed a cell atlas for the mouse brain, which contains approximately 100 million cells. However, human and primate brains have billions of cells, making the creation of a cell ...

These were thought to be a primate innovation ... the mammalian brain and their dysfunction in diseases. The mouse brain cell atlas also provides a starting point for generating similarly ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors ...

To study how information gathered by the foveola of primates is represented in the brain, the researchers used sophisticated and high-definition imaging techniques developed by their lab.

More information: Liangchen Zhuo et al, MAPbrain: a multi-omics atlas of the primate brain, Nucleic Acids Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae911 ...

In addition to having adaptations for enhanced depth perception and visual acuity, primates also have large visual regions of the brain (Allman, 1999; Kaas, 2005, 2008). Macaque monkeys ...