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The National Institutes of Health announced that enrollment for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is now complete and, in early 2019, scientists will have access to baseline data from all ABCD Study participants.
There are 11,874 youth, ages 9-10, participating in the study, including 2,100 young people who are twins or triplets. All will be followed through young...
Peter Grahn has faced the same question for a dozen years since he dived as a reckless teen into a southwest Minnesota lake, slammed headfirst into the shallow bottom, and floated — face down and motionless — on the surface.
Will I ever walk again? Turns out, he might end up as one of the first researchers in the world who can really answer it.
...A spate of bullying allegations have rocked several high-profile science institutions. Here’s how researchers, universities, funders and others are dealing with the issue: Does science have a bullying problem?
ANA Scientific Program Advisory Committee chair and director of the Center for Neurogenetics at Weill Cornell Medicine Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross highlights astonishing advances in gene therapy in the Wichita Business Journal. Read more: 2018 Best Doctors - Business Journal
There's so much scientists still don't understand about how individual cells work together, whether that's to keep a brain functioning, a stomach churning, or a cancer metastasizing. But a powerful new technology called single cell sequencing is starting to fill in the picture of how, exactly, an individual cell operates. By quickly and cheaply analyzing thousands of cells in one experiment,...
