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Young Cells in Old Brains ( Preview )

The paradigm-shifting conclusion that adult brains can grow new neurons owes a lot to Elizabeth Gould's rats and monkeys

By Marguerite Holloway   

 
ELIZABETH GOULD: CHANGING MINDS
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PRINCETON, N.J.--Reunion weekend at Princeton University, and the shady Gothic campus has been inundated by spring showers and men in

boaters and natty orange seersucker jackets. Tents and small groups of murmuring alumni dot the courtyards. Everything proper, seemingly in its place. In

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