Michael Sidorov is a principal investigator at the Center for Neuroscience Research at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Michael Sidorov
Principal investigator
Center for Neuroscience Research at Children’s National Hospital
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A new analysis package enables researchers to distill multiple measures of Angelman syndrome mice into a single ‘severity score.’
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