Graduate student Valerie Sydnor's work on hierarchical development of cortical plasticity -- recently published in Nature Neuroscience -- was featured in What A Year! The focus of What A Year! is the latest medical and biomedical research and is a source of life science education for middle school and high school biology students interested in recent medical discovers and biomedical breakthroughs. Check it out here.
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