Probing the Mysteries of the Aging Brain

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Sixteen years ago, Michael Segel was a rising senior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts when, acting on a friend’s suggestion, he signed on for a summer stint at a Harvard stem cell lab. “I was somewhat interested in science, in particular biology, but never thought that it was for me,” Segel says. Get more HMS news But working with renowned biologist Douglas A. Melton , now a distinguished research fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Catalyst Professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
By DENNIS NEALON