Scientists identified more than 70 genes that promote axon growth after injury, according to work published in the September 22, 2011 issue of the journal Neuron. JCC Fellow Zhiping Wang, who recently finished his JCC […]
This is my last year as Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA). Joan Steitz, the former Chair of the BSA, invited me to join the Board in 1993 and then […]
Joining the BSA this year is Huda Zoghbi, HHMI investigator and professor in the departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Neurology and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. I am truly excited about […]
A pounding heartbeat, quick breathing, sweaty palmswe all know these common responses to fearful situations. The signal that initiates fear in our bodies begins in a structure of the brain known as the amygdala. But […]
From the National Library of Medicine and the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Stanford University: We have completed our selection of graduate students. It was unusually difficult this year, I thought, because of […]