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Vive la difference!

Reading Time: 3 minutes It could be easy to assume that one motor neurone is pretty much like another, but a series of presentations on Thursday clearly showed that we need to be a little more sophisticated in our thinking. Dr Hynek Wichterle (Columbia University) discussed how in the developing embryo, there are distinct regional subtypes of motor neurones…

A right Royal event

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s 6.45 a.m. and I’m trying to find my way to the BBC Sheffield studios for a series of local radio interviews, but I’m lost in the dreaded one-way system (I knew I should’ve got the sat nav out, but it looked so easy on the map….). Just after seven I get into the studio…