By making knockout mice, Frederique Varoqueaux at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Germany and his colleagues revealed that neuroligin, a cell adhesion molecule, may not be essential for synaptogenesis. 1 "It hints that our current understanding is probably incorrect or at the very least incomplete," says Faculty of 1000 member Venkatesh Murthy at Harvard University.
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