Author: myappsplus

Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed crossing a road because she couldn’t see oncoming traffic. And Lu’s own…

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We live in an age of big data—and that’s a boon for biologists. Neuroscientists listen in on the chatter of thousands of neurons, recording the individual activity of each one. Geneticists sequence entire genomes in a matter of hours. Rich information about animal behavior is captured in a simple video, tracked across thousands of frames.

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