2017 Research Live! 2nd Place: Elizabeth Davis - Stem Cells & Cancer

"Your Brain is Talking Directly to Your Stem Cells" (Neuroscience)

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Can the sympathetic nervous system be used to stop cancer? Elizabeth has discovered that your brain is talking directly to your intestinal stem cells. She researches at the Dailey Lab the “fight or flight” nervous system. Specifically the autonomic influence on intestinal epithelial stem cell proliferation.

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