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Last semester, Clapp, an Eliot House resident, founded the Southern Core Aid Network (SCAN), a non-profit organization devoted to improving living conditions, education and public health in poor rural areas of South America...
Currently, the primary focus of SCAN is to stop the spread of Chagas disease, an epidemic that kills 45,000 South Americans each year...
Clapp decided to create SCAN last summer in Chile, where she was doing biological research at La Catolica University in Santiago...
...Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit organization devoted to highlighting the importance of the first three years of life, is that modern neuroscience is providing the hard, quantifiable evidence that was missing earlier. "Because you can see the results under a microscope or in a PET scan," he observes, "it's become that much more convincing...
...crawly sprout that looks something like an amoeba. Scientists have known about growth cones since the turn of the century. What they didn't know until recently was that growth cones come equipped with the molecular equivalent of sonar and radar. Just as instruments in a submarine or airplane scan the environment for signals, so molecules arrayed on the surface of growth cones search their surroundings for the presence of certain proteins. Some of these proteins, it turns out, are attractants that pull the growth cones toward them, while others are repellents that push them away...