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Silvia Arber has been awarded the 2022 Brain Prize
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Madeline Lancaster is known as the inventor of brain organoids, also called ‘mini brains’. We caught up with her for a conversation about how we can study psychiatric conditions in a tiny clump of cells, and what exactly it is about the human brain that sets it apart from that of our closest relatives.
The project is coming up with solutions to debilitating summer heat in cities, in collaboration with people that live there
The chemist was chosen for her work on oxygen-sensing enzymes
Sandra Knapp, Susan Lea, Maria Leptin and Irene Miguel-Aliaga have all made “outstanding contributions” to their respective scientific fields or science as a whole
The two AcademiaNet members’ papers both focused on technology use in a school setting