Featured News Image Research news | Feb 2 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Aging brains pile up damaged proteins Proteins that start life inside neurons build up faster in old age and spread to other brain cells—a potential source of neurological mischief Image Research news | Jan 22 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A new atlas could help guide researchers studying neurological disease The database of lysosomal proteins is already helping researchers study how brain cells’ waste and recycling systems work—or don’t—in Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases Image Director's messages | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Happy New Year from Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2026, reflects on our recent milestones, and wishes the community a happy and productive new year Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Big Ideas in Neuroscience tackle brain science of everyday life and more From studying post-viral fatigue to engineering transparent mouse brains, round three of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Big Ideas grants will push the bounds of what’s possible News Filter & Sort Sort by Theme (-) NeuroEngineering NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery News Type (-) Press coverage Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Press coverage | Jan 2 2026 NPR Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease A recent meeting gathered scientists, ethicists, patient advocates and more to discuss organoid ethics. Image Press coverage | Dec 25 2025 NPR Experts met to discuss the ethics of using organoids in research Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self. Image Press coverage | Nov 7 2025 STAT Scientists and bioethicists call for global oversight of brain organoid research Scientists and ethicists including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Sergiu Pașca and Hank Greely argued for an international process to address the ethical and social questions raised by organoids. Image Press coverage | Aug 18 2025 The New York Times For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying. Image Press coverage | Oct 25 2024 WIRED A Neuralink rival says its eye implant restored vision in blind people Science Corporation's retinal implant, built on the research of faculty affiliate Daniel Palanker, has allowed some people who lost their central vision to r Image Press coverage | Mar 18 2024 Huberman Lab Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky: How the Brain Works, Curing Blindness & How to Navigate a... In this interview on the Huberman Lab podcast, Institute affiliate E.J. Chichilnisky discusses how studying the retina informs our understanding of the brain, the development of artificial retinas for treating incurable blindness, and his own personal journey. Image Press coverage | Mar 10 2024 New York Times A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive A.I. models developed by members of Wu Tsai Neuro's Neuro-Omics Initiative are making surprising biological discoveries. Image Press coverage | Feb 21 2024 Wired Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Paul Nuyujukian shares his expertise on brain-computer interfaces amid Neuralink's first human brain implant. Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 NBC Bay Area Fact or fiction? First brain chip could be implanted in a human patient NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian for insight on the first brain chip in a human patient. Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 CNN Health What to know about human brain implants Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian contributes to the discussion of Neuralink implanting a brain chip into a human. Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 NBC News Elon Musk startup says it successfully implanted a chip in a human brain In a live interview, Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian tells NBC News how Neuralink technology works and the future of brain-computer interfaces. 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Image Research news | Feb 2 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Aging brains pile up damaged proteins Proteins that start life inside neurons build up faster in old age and spread to other brain cells—a potential source of neurological mischief
Image Research news | Jan 22 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A new atlas could help guide researchers studying neurological disease The database of lysosomal proteins is already helping researchers study how brain cells’ waste and recycling systems work—or don’t—in Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases
Image Director's messages | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Happy New Year from Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2026, reflects on our recent milestones, and wishes the community a happy and productive new year
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jan 12 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Big Ideas in Neuroscience tackle brain science of everyday life and more From studying post-viral fatigue to engineering transparent mouse brains, round three of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Big Ideas grants will push the bounds of what’s possible
Image Press coverage | Jan 2 2026 NPR Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease A recent meeting gathered scientists, ethicists, patient advocates and more to discuss organoid ethics.
Image Press coverage | Dec 25 2025 NPR Experts met to discuss the ethics of using organoids in research Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.
Image Press coverage | Nov 7 2025 STAT Scientists and bioethicists call for global oversight of brain organoid research Scientists and ethicists including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Sergiu Pașca and Hank Greely argued for an international process to address the ethical and social questions raised by organoids.
Image Press coverage | Aug 18 2025 The New York Times For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.
Image Press coverage | Oct 25 2024 WIRED A Neuralink rival says its eye implant restored vision in blind people Science Corporation's retinal implant, built on the research of faculty affiliate Daniel Palanker, has allowed some people who lost their central vision to r
Image Press coverage | Mar 18 2024 Huberman Lab Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky: How the Brain Works, Curing Blindness & How to Navigate a... In this interview on the Huberman Lab podcast, Institute affiliate E.J. Chichilnisky discusses how studying the retina informs our understanding of the brain, the development of artificial retinas for treating incurable blindness, and his own personal journey.
Image Press coverage | Mar 10 2024 New York Times A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive A.I. models developed by members of Wu Tsai Neuro's Neuro-Omics Initiative are making surprising biological discoveries.
Image Press coverage | Feb 21 2024 Wired Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Paul Nuyujukian shares his expertise on brain-computer interfaces amid Neuralink's first human brain implant.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 NBC Bay Area Fact or fiction? First brain chip could be implanted in a human patient NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian for insight on the first brain chip in a human patient.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 CNN Health What to know about human brain implants Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian contributes to the discussion of Neuralink implanting a brain chip into a human.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 NBC News Elon Musk startup says it successfully implanted a chip in a human brain In a live interview, Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian tells NBC News how Neuralink technology works and the future of brain-computer interfaces.
Image Press coverage | Jan 10 2024 Focused Ultrasound Foundation A New Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation System for Preclinical Brain Research Researchers designed, built, and tested a new focused ultrasound neuromodulation system for preclinical brain research supported by a Seed Grant.
Image Press coverage | Aug 25 2023 Healthline How Brain Implants and AI Helped These Women Regain Their Voice Brain-computer interface technology assisted with language learning AI allows paralyzed individuals to speak by reading brain activity and decoding it into speech according to new research co-authored by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Erin Kunz.
Image Press coverage | Aug 23 2023 Washington Post Brain chip helps voiceless patient communicate at 62 words per minute Using brain implants, machine learning and a predictive model, researchers at Stanford Medicine and Wu Tsai Neuro decoded a woman’s attempts to speak at a rate that begins to approach natural conversation.
Image Press coverage | Mar 20 2023 Nature Neuroscience Krishna V. Shenoy (1968–2023) Institute scholar Paul Nuyujukian and Mark Churchland remember the great Krishna Shenoy, who passed away earlier this year.
Image Press coverage | May 28 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute This device may nudge your brain into deep sleep By stretching the length of deep sleep, Tucker’s device aims to boost that overnight wash cycle. Someday soon, he hopes, something like it will be widely used by people to clear their heads — literally.