Senior Sage Scott puts on her white lab coat, ready to spend hours hunched over a microscope in a dark room, illuminated by the fluorescent slides containing rat brains. Scott is the youngest researcher in her lab, at 17 years old, the second youngest being 25. She works in the neurology lab at the University of Kansas Medical Center, researching cortical plasticity — the brain’s ability to form new connections between neurons after an injury or a lifestyle change. “What I’m doing is I look at the slides of the rat brains in the computer, and I look for where the injuries are, and then I calculate the volume of the injury to see how severe it is and how the different treatments that we’ve tried have been effective,” Scott said. To read more, click the link in bio. #storybyalexharden #pagedesignbyjuliacampbell