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Chang’s lab recently developed a stem-cell-based model that can be used to better understand the underlying mechanisms behind the Rett syndrome and screen new drugs as potential therapeutics.

NF1 is a genetic disease caused by changes, or mutations, to a single gene in the human DNA library. Roughly one out of 3,000 babies born in the United States have the disease. Sussman is among the interdisciplinary researchers looking for answers.