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Research Week 2017: ‘How can we use our brains to understand our brains?’

Research Week 2017: ‘How can we use our brains to understand our brains?’

Tianyi Mao, Ph.D., maps what she refers to as the “connectome,” how different parts of the brain connect together to perform different tasks.
Research Week 2017: Why should anyone care about aflatoxins? Communicating the need for basic science around the world

Research Week 2017: Why should anyone care about aflatoxins? Communicating the need for basic science around the world

Stephen Lloyd's recent research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drew upon his expertise as a cancer biologist and focused on a global health problem affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where a specific class of toxic compounds, called aflatoxins, are commonly found in food sources.