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Meet Alekha Goldberg, a California seventh-grader who tested a potential brain-injury treatment on 350 fruit flies after her brother was hurt; injured flies given the highest dose survived and climbed better

Alekha GoldbergPhoto credit: Society for science When Alekha Goldberg’s older brother suffered a traumatic brain injury during a violent attack in Washington, D.C., she saw how deeply the injury changed…