Knight Initiative News

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.

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.

The new tool, 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.

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).

In the real world, things change fast. Stanford researchers invented the “curious replay” training method based on studying mice to help AI agents successfully explore and adapt to changing surroundings.

Alice Ting and team develop TransitID, a powerful method for tracking protein activity in living cells through an unbiased approach. This study came out of the Neuro-Omics Initiative, a project funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program.

A new study demonstrating CRISPR gene editing in killifish opens the doors for ambitious research on the biological drivers of aging.

Tiny DNA circles harbor cancer-associated oncogenes and immunomodulatory genes that promote cancer development.

Bioluminescence helps Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michael Lin and team develop cancer drugs for brain.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates and others are accepted into competitive cohort in Stanford Medicine's new Catalyst program.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michael Snyder explains why he collects vast stores of his own biodata and what all that information might reveal about our personal health.

Using pulses of light to control heart rate, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Karl Deisseroth and fellow Stanford Medicine researchers investigate a long-standing mystery about how physical states influence emotions.

When mice watch other mice fight, neurons in their brains fire as if they were physically fighting. New research by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Nirao Shah, with Liqun Luo, Shaul Druckmann and colleagues.

During the pandemic, rates of anxiety and depression soared around the globe, resulting in a shortage of mental health care providers and long wait times for therapy according to Stanford Medicine study led by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Andrew Huberman and David Spiegel.

Researchers at the the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute explain mechanisms behind the image-generating model DALL-E and its similarities to the human brain, and what to expect for the future of artificial intelligence in creative mechanisms.

Researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are at the forefront of a seismic shift that’s putting a spotlight on once taboo psychedelic substances as a promising new frontier in psychiatric medicine.

New insights into the drivers of aging are emerging from research using an automated system for care and monitoring of hundreds of short-lived fish developed in the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute’s Sandbox Laboratory.

Stanford bioengineering professor Kwabena Boahen looks toward dendrites for a completely novel way of thinking about computer chips.

Knight Initiative researchers report that they identified novel molecular markers capable of tracking the progression of Parkinson’s disease.