Meet Ava Grace Cummings, the 18-year-old North Carolina student who modelled STAC3 disorder, a rare hereditary muscle disease first identified in the Lumbee Tribe, in fruit flies and won $175,000 from Regeneron

The Regeneron Science Talent Search is described by the Society for Science as the nation's oldest and most prestigious science and maths competition for high school seniors. It makes sense that most projects address issues that are somewhat unrelated to the r