Knight Initiative News

Researchers with the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded Stanford Brain Organogenesis project have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body’s periphery to the brain.

A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales by a Knight Initiative–supported team found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.

Psychiatrist Anna Lembke shares what scientists have discovered so far about the potential for GLP-1s in addiction treatment.

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized visual brains.

Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects.

New findings about the sugary armor on the brain’s frontline cells could shed light on cognitive decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s—and open new avenues for treatment.

 

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong explains how he and colleagues have used a dye commonly found in nacho chips to make living tissue transparent.

Stanford Medicine research demonstrates a new way of detecting cells implicated in the malfunctions that cause psychiatric diseases.

Stanford University researchers have released a groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) application designed to help children prepare for MRI scans. The app, now available for free on the Oculus store, aims to reduce anxiety, improve scan quality, and educate young patients about the MRI experience.

Researchers at Stanford’s Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience

Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new possibilities for wearable devices.

Alice Ting and colleagues have built a new synthetic receptor with  broad potential to program cell activity, including immune response and neurological signaling.

New research from the Malenka lab reveals that reward-based learning requires the two neuromodulators to balance one another's influence.

With Knight Initiative support, Stanford researchers uncover a biochemical “off-ramp” in ketosis, rewriting our understanding of how ketosis influences metabolism.

Bioengineers and neuroscientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University have developed a highly sensitive tool for detecting brain cells’ subtlest electrical signals.

Supported by the Big Ideas in Neuroscience program, research from the Brunet lab suggests the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron production in old or injured brains.

With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro seed grant, faculty affiliate Helen Bronte-Stewart and her team have developed a simple, portable device to help Parkinson's patients track their symptoms at home.

New research by Institute affiliate Leanne Williams adds to the evidence that choosing treatment based on the neurological underpinnings of a patient’s depression increases the odds of success.

Researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, supported in part by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules.

A collaboration between Institute Faculty Scholars Julia Kaltschmidt and Todd Coleman has identified a key step in nervous system control over gut motility, opening new opportunities for understanding GI disorders in premature infants