Monthly Archives: November 2008

Making Connections that Count

November 24, 2008 – 8:50 pm

Building Neuroscience Value Networks
For this month’s backstory, I am excited to introduce Dr. Ijad Madisch and the Networking Site he founded, ResearchGATE corporation (www.researchgate.net). 
Madisch, 27, an M.D. and Ph.D. virologist, says he and some friends came up with the idea when he moved from his native Germany for a research traineeship at Harvard Medical School in [...]

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Culturing DRG Neurons

November 12, 2008 – 7:57 pm

In our last backstory, we featured Dr. Matt Ramer and the excellent work he and his team are doing on  Sensory Neuron Regeneration. One of the focal points of this research is on the Dorsal Root Ganglion. This is the connection point between the Peripheral Nervous System and Spinal Cord. From the spinal cord signals [...]

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