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CREDIT LINECREDIT LINE Adult neurogenesis, already known to play a role in learning and memory, also figures into mental health ...

40 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com I n the spring of 2019, neuroscientist Heather Cameron set up a simple experiment. She and ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 41 Parylak compares this situation to going to the same res- taurant after it has changed ownership. In ...

HOW ADULT-BORN NEURONS INTEGRATE INTO THE BRAIN In recent years, images and videos taken with state-of-the-art microscopy techni ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 43 the Brain,” The Scientist, October 2018.) In other animals, the researchers boosted neurogenesis afte ...

44 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com © LISA CLARK HOW ADULT-BORN NEURONS FUNCTION IN A CIRCUIT Researchers think neurogenesis he ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 45 CREDIT LINE The study from Cameron’s lab on rats’ ability to shift their attention grew out of the re ...

THE PAPER M.E. Villar et al., “Redefining single-trial memories in the honeybee,” Cell Rep, 30:2603–13.e3, 2020. With their tiny ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 47 © ISTOCK.COM, KEONGDAGREAT; XIANGYU ZHAN IN THE DARK: Male fruit flies kept in constant darkness forg ...

48 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com PROFILE JILL RIEMER A s rodents scuttle through a maze, scientists can observe the activity ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 49 CAREER TITLES AND AWAR DS Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington Chief, Divis ...

50 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com PROFILE “She realized, I think, before many people did, that if you were going to understan ...

A s a Harvard undergraduate, Daniel Colón-Ramos explored the forests of Panama and Honduras, listening closely as indigenous peo ...

52 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com BIO BUSINESS T hree years ago, Eli Lilly, Apple, and California-based health and measuremen ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 53 Early diagnosis could not only aid intervention for people at high risk of developing dementia, but p ...

BIO BUSINESS 54 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com BIO BUSINESS Another group, venture capital–funded Linus Health, is working wi ...

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 55 ted, stored, and analyzed, making the privacy of participating users an obvi- ous concern. There are ...

COMINGSOON Leveraging Advances in Predesigned Synthetic sgRNAs for Highly Functional and Specific CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Knockout WEBI ...

Studying layers of cells grown on flat surfaces leaves a lot to be desired as cellular responses and gene expression change when ...

58 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com F or centuries, scientists have been arguing about where memory resides in the brain. I exp ...