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Teen Brains Are Wired to Seek Rewards

UCLA psychologists Emily Barkley-Levenson and Adriana Galván have found that higher levels of pleasure sensation in teens were related to higher levels of brain activity in the brain’s pleasure center in response to rewards.

Stem Cell Study: Balancing blood supply

Utpal Banerjee, the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and chairman of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology co-authored a study showing that two-way signaling from two different sets of cells is necessary for bloody-supply balance, both to ensure that enough blood cells are produced to respond to injury and infection and that blood progenitor cells remain available for future needs.