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Study Challenges Evolutionary Timeline: Nervous System Building Blocks Found in Ancient Single-Celled Organisms


A new study reveals that certain ion channels existed before the earliest common ancestor of animals. A recent study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of key proteins essential for electrical signaling in the nervous system. Conducted by researchers at Penn State, the

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