MacArthur Genius Grant Winner Probes the Pruning Brain
Oct 01, 2015•4 min
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Episode description
Harvard neuroscientist Beth Stevens wins a MacArthur Fellowship for studies of how microglia cells prune away excess neuronal synapses during brain development and how that necessary function might go awry in neurodegenerative diseases
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