60th Annual Top-N-Pops Jazz Concert

 
The Mount Vernon City School Music Department is hosting its 60th Annual Top-N-Pops jazz concert on Friday, April 28th in the middle school commons. That’s right, this is our 60th year! Join us for a special evening of jazz music performed by the MVMS Jazz Band, the MVHS Mello Jackets and the premier performance of the Knox County Jazz Orchestra.
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Human Forebrain Circuits Under Construction – in a Dish

Autism-related errant migration of neurons corrected in patient-derived 3D “spheroids”

National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded neuroscientists have created a 3D window into the human brain’s budding executive hub assembling itself during a critical period in prenatal development. What’s more, they used it to discover and experimentally correct — in a petri dish — defective cell migration caused by an autism-related disorder.… Read full story