by Andrea Lavazza Kaganovsky and colleagues genetically modified mice so that much of the cerebral cortex and hippocampus would not develop. They then transplanted human neural organoids into the space left vacant. This is a remarkable scientific achievement, intended to provide a living model for studying brain development and disease and for developing therapies. It […]
Category: Suffering
Sweet melancholies
By Charlotte Duffee. William Blake’s famous painting, Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils, pictures the devil pinning the Old Testament saint to the ground while afflicting his flesh. We see Job in great physical distress: neck bent—almost broken—backwards; fingers splayed stiffly; widened eyes wild with alarm. In his drawing of this same scene, Blake places […]