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Oct 2026
Cellular scaling laws in the mammalian brain.
Recent whole-brain cell atlases have uncovered a consistent cytoarchitectural feature: the greatest diversity of discrete neuronal cell types resides not in the regions with the most neurons (e.g., the cortex and cerebellum) but rather in deep subcortical structures like the hypothalamus and brain stem. We propose that...
Fei Chen, E. Macosko
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