Author: Frida Aikhionbare

Referring to the brain, the center of our nervous system, as one singular, consolidated organ is no longer the full truth. The long-standing model developed decades ago by developmental biologists treated the brain as the product of a common neural ectoderm. Ectoderm refers to the outermost germ layer formed during early animal embryo development that major structures…

If you were to visit a doctor and leave with one more disease than you walked in with, you would probably sue, right? A Nobel Prize winner presented us with the opportunity to pose this question to patients he was treating with an infectious disease. Before antibiotics could transform the treatment of infection, physicians of…