{"id":244445,"date":"2026-09-24T01:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/brain-organoids-uncover-how-primates-develop-different-brain-shapes"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:21:18","slug":"brain-organoids-uncover-how-primates-develop-different-brain-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/brain-organoids-uncover-how-primates-develop-different-brain-shapes","title":{"rendered":"Brain organoids uncover how primates develop different brain shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-organoids-uncover-how-primates-develop-different-brain-shapes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The brains of these small monkeys are smooth and virtually unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the German Primate Center (DPZ)\u2014the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in G\u00f6ttingen\u2014investigated which cellular processes during embryonic development cause the marmoset brain to develop differently from a certain stage onward.<\/p>\n<p>In experiments with brain organoids, they were able to show that certain neural progenitor cells\u2014from which neurons arise\u2014develop differently in marmosets, both morphologically and temporally. Several processes occurring at different levels and involving various types of progenitor cells govern this phenomenon, which ultimately leads to a reduction in the size and folding of the marmoset brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The brains of these small monkeys are smooth and virtually unfolded. Researchers at the German Primate Center (DPZ)\u2014the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in G\u00f6ttingen\u2014investigated which cellular processes during embryonic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}