As someone interested in both genetics & neural activity, I appreciate the common challenge of linking causal function to system-level understanding.
This excellent review by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social & Maizels shows a way forward for gene networks in development
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41803457/
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) explain how the genome controls cellular behaviour and tissue morphogenesis, serving to connect molecular mechanism to functional output. Single-cell technologies now p...