MORGAN COUNTY – Education and the ways to get it have changed tremendously over the years, and school districts across Morgan County are working to make education accessible to all. The Monroe-Gregg School District features the Monrovia School of Integrated Technology, which offers a variety of programs including alternative education, night school for adults graduating […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to this week’s community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. Our first threads are from Shabeesh Balan, a researcher at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Wako, Saitama, Japan, and Toshihiro Endo, founder and scientist of Phenovance Research and Technology […]
Multi-pronged Approach: New therapies for Rett Syndrome look at the same goal from different angles. Photo by William Mebane In theory, researchers know how to reverse many of the debilitating effects of Rett syndrome: increasing the expression of the protein MECP2. People with this condition typically have a mutated copy of the MECP2 gene and, […]
