As for the word race, it has so many different meanings, as to be useless in scientific discussion, to very useful for getting members of the same nation to hate one another. — JBS Haldane A resolution passed recently by European Parliament recognizing caste-based discrimination as a form of racial discrimination reminds one of an …
During the development of neural circuits, excessive synapses are formed in a genetically programmed manner. Neural circuits are refined by the experience dependent pruning of supernumerary imprecise connections and the strengthening of the functional synapses. The molecular mechanisms underlying this process remain largely unknown. In [1], authors describe the role of ephrin-A2 in regulating experience …