The biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences expert at URI talks about “the critical window” during brain development, why minority populations are more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s, and the secret to staying motivated.
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In the 1992 film Medicine Man, biochemist Robert Campbell, played by actor Sean Connery, searches for new drugs in the Amazon’s vast rainforests. There Campbell finds a cure for cancer not in the rainforest’s rare flowers – which don’t have “juju,” or the power to heal – but in an indigenous ant species.
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