Author: Ana Rodríguez

Each year, more than half-a-million infants are born prematurely and have immature guts that cannot absorb enough food to sustain life.  In order to nourish

By David M. Eagleman, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine – This article originally ran in the Journal of Neuroscience. Abstract Communicating science to the

Editor’s Note: The fruit fly or Drosophila melanogaster has long been an important model organism, enabling the study of the nervous system, genetics and other

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. Some children are born with a devastating form of childhood epilepsy called infantile spasms that cause a life of severe seizures

A newly recognized gene called tempura plays a critical role in the activity of Notch, a signaling pathway that determines cell fate, said researchers at

By Huda Y. Zoghbi and Paul Greengard.  Nearly every discussion of women in the sciences eventually arrives at the same question: Why, at a time

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H.  Patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) treated with teriparatide, a form of parathyroid hormone approved for treatment of women with osteoporosis,