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

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• Alekha Goldberg, a California seventh-grader, tested a potential brain-injury treatment on 350 fruit flies after her older brother suffered a traumatic brain injury in a violent attack in Washington, D.C.
• Her project examined methylene blue, a medication she learned may protect the brain, using fruit flies as a research model.