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She Was Born Without a Brain and Given Only 4 Years to Live — but She Turned 20 Against All Odds
Doctors never expected Alex Simpson to survive long after birth. Diagnosed with hydranencephaly — a rare condition in which ...
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Woman Born Without a Brain Defies the Odds by Celebrating 20th Birthday
When Alex Simpson came into the world, doctors didn’t believe she would live more than a few years. Born with hydranencephaly, a rare condition where most of the brain’s hemispheres are missing and ...
The brain is the basic functioning organ behind living creatures. But as nature is endowed with limitless surprises, it is no ...
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The brain is an evolutionary marvel. By shifting the control of sensing and behavior to this central organ, animals (including us) are able to flexibly respond and flourish in unpredictable ...
In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...
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