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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

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itvision · 1789800711 · focus · HN ↗
What a way to oversell the discovery.
The reality is:
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    * Different brain regions have different functions: ancient knowledge.
    * Different regions contain distinct cell types and molecular programs: also well established.
    * Anterior and posterior brain structures may trace back to fundamentally separate progenitor lineages that were independently specified very early in evolution and development: that&#x27;s the interesting new result.
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The headline should have been: "Human forebrain and hindbrain arise from distinct embryonic progenitor lineages" - not that we have "two organs" in the brain.
1. ocimbote · 1789817129 · focus · HN ↗
  I think you're right. And I would even assume that, should the article be from Fox News (just an example), every other commenter that excuses the title would have yelled at journalism slop, clickbait and whatnot.
  But that's stanford.edu, so we must tread lightly.

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