Neuroscience
| 10+ min read
Spaceflight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome impairs astronauts’ vision, but new strategies to study the condition in space and on Earth may lead to treatments.
| 5 min read
An understudied passageway linking the inner ear and the brain in mice offers a potential delivery route for restoring hearing in humans.
| 4 min read
Researchers identified schizophrenia risk genes that mediate placental, rather than brain, function, revealing new insight into the disease’s developmental origins.
| 5 min read
Isaac Chiu delves into the intricate interplay between neurons, immune cells, and microbes
to understand how pain and infection occur.
| 2 min read
We should expand our definition of what it means to be a scientist to include all of the important roles that stem from this identity.
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Scientists employ optogenetic tools to understand how the brain recovers from damage and generates sensory experiences.
| 3 min read
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for developing technology that predicts the 3D structures of proteins.
| 8 min read
A one-time gene therapy aims to stop Huntington's disease at its source. But first, it has to survive clinical trials.
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Optimizing the chemical architecture of siRNA improves its therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative disorders.
| 9 min read
This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
| 3 min read
High resolution microscopy revealed distinct mitochondrial populations in inner ear hair cells, setting the stage for probing their role in mitochondrial deafness.
| 4 min read
Data from a highly resilient individual guided researchers to new potential therapeutic targets.
