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A recent graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Jenny Marder is freelance journalist from Los Angeles whose writing has earned awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the California Newspaper Publisher's Association. From 2004 to 2006, Marder covered local politics and started a health beat at the Long Beach Press-Telegram in California. Here, she writes about Russell Romeo, a researcher who


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A recent graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Jenny Marder is freelance journalist from Los Angeles whose writing has earned awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the California Newspaper Publisher's Association. From 2004 to 2006, Marder covered local politics and started a health beat at the Long Beach Press-Telegram in California. Here, she writes about Russell Romeo, a researcher who found that stress has a very different neuroendocrine effect on adolescent versus adult rats. Stress in adolescent rats is generally "not an area that has been terribly well-researched," she says. "Adolescence is a time of extreme vulnerability, especially in the brain."

András Aszódi works on epigenome informatics at the Institute for Molecular Pathology in Vienna. After completing a PhD in chemistry at the University of Budapest in 1991, Aszódi researched protein structure at the National Institute for Medical Research ...

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