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University of Washington

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A team including researchers at the University of Washington compared MRIs from 300 babies using new software to compare their brains’ white matter and discovered that myelin, a part of white matter, develops much slower after birth. Here, images from six babies born at different times in their terms (displayed above each) show the changes in brain development.

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Grotheer et al./PNAS 2023

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