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Cydney Wright of the 2023 NeURO cohort shares her research findings at the poster session.
Sep 18 2023 | Wu Tsai Neuro
Stanford undergraduates and local community college students presented their summer research projects in Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute labs at a poster session last month.
Aug 24 2023 | Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Pathologist Siddhartha Jaiswal discovers a surprising twist to our biology: age-related mutations that increase the risk of blood disease also protect against brain disease.
Frank Willett operates software that translates Pat Bennett's attempts at speech — recorded by sensors in her brain — into words on a screen.
Aug 23 2023 | Stanford Medicine
Our brains remember how to formulate words even if the muscles responsible for saying them out loud are incapacitated. A brain-computer hookup is making the dream of restoring speech a reality in a Stanford Medicine study, which includes Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates.
Aug 17 2023 | Stanford Medicine
A study in mice finds that white matter — the tissue that transmits messages around the brain — shows the greatest changes as the animals age.
In this image of a male mouse's brain, pink denotes the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST); green, the preoptic hypothalamus. The impulse flows from pink to green in the neural circuit governing mating drive, behavior and satisfaction.
Aug 11 2023 | Stanford Medicine
Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary scholar Renzhi Yang and colleagues in the lab of institute affiliate Nirao Shah have found that a particular neuronal circuit in male mice is responsible for sexual arousal and for the actions and pleasure that ensue.
Gene expression data collected using the Ex-ST method is overlaid on tissue from the olfactory bulb that was imaged using fluorescence microscopy. The Ex-ST data helps to resolve the tissue architecture better than standard methods.
Aug 7 2023 | Wu Tsai Neuro
Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Bo Wang’s team expanded mouse brain tissue to improve the resolution of spatial transcriptomics techniques. Their method — called Ex-ST — greatly improves the ability to map brain circuits by cell type.
Anqi Zhang, Stanford postdoc
Aug 2 2023 | Stanford Engineering
The new tool, which was pioneered by Anqi Zhang, now a Stanford postdoc with Karl Deisseroth and Zhenan Bao, could make it possible to study and treat the brain without causing tissue damage.
Neuronal grid in the human duodenum at 19 gestational weeks
Aug 1 2023 | Wu Tsai Neuro
Researchers with Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute aim to improve gut motility and health outcomes for preterm babies through foundational research on the nervous system of the gut, called the enteric nervous system (ENS).
Erin Kunz
Jul 12 2023 | Wu Tsai Neuro
Erin Kunz, third year PhD student in Electrical Engineering, started her career developing autonomous vehicles at General Motors (GM) — but now she uses her software engineering and machine learning skills in the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory at Stanford, led by faculty members Jamie...
Tracking JUN’s intracellular trafficking from stress granules to the nucleus. (Image credit: James Messing and Brian D. Freibaum)
Jun 28 2023 | Stanford News
Alice Ting and team develop TransitID, a powerful method for tracking protein activity in living cells through an unbiased approach. This cutting-edge study came out of the Neuro-Omics Initiative, a project funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program.

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