Dorothy Carter spends her days developing strategies that can help astronauts prepare for missions to Mars, assist military leaders in maximizing their troops’ performance, and coach corporate leaders to optimize organizational plans.
It’s not what she thought she would be doing in the early 2000s when she was a professional dancer for a ballet company in Ohio.
But, her long-range future was limited, she realized then.
“There was no real…
Tags: social sciences
Extraordinary new research on stem cells in our muscles that affects people at every age:
Muscle aches and pains, whether from stretching, strenuous exercise or just normal wear and tear, can put a crimp in your day, a limp in your step and be an actual pain in the neck. But no matter the severity, stem cells in the skeletal muscles called satellite cells play a key role in repairing the damage.
Without a proper function of satellite cells, as…