CLS professor Ekaterina Khrameeva has become the first author of the paper “Single-cell-resolution transcriptome map of human, chimpanzee, bonobo, and macaque brains” that has been recently published in Genome Research journal. In the article, the scientists have analyzed the differences in transcriptomes of neurons and glial cells at single-cell level between human and other primates. They have identified that among different regions of the brain cerebral cortex areas, hypothalamus, and cerebellar gray and white matter evolved rapidly in humans. At the cellular level, astrocytes and oligodendrocyte progenitors displayed more differences in the human evolutionary lineage than the neurons. Congratulations! Full text of the article is available here.