Rebecca joined Drug Discovery News as an Intern in 2023. She is a PhD candidate at University of Southern California where she studies molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in fruit flies. As an intern, she writes about brain function and health from early development to advanced age. When not in the lab or writing, she can be found hiking in the Los Angeles mountains with her dog.
Researchers identified schizophrenia risk genes that mediate placental, rather than brain, function, revealing new insight into the disease’s developmental origins.
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