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Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains
Image Research news | Apr 1 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Newly identified chronic pain circuit offers pathways to new treatments The research showed that chronic pain is controlled by an entirely separate system than acute pain
Image Knight Initiative news | Mar 23 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience New ideas in aging and resilience research launched by Rosenkranz Foundation and... The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Image Press coverage | Apr 20 2026 The New York Times 6 Common Medications That May Lower Your Dementia Risk Shingles vaccines appear to have a protective benefit, Knight Initiative researcher Pascal Geldsetzer has shown.
Image Press coverage | Apr 15 2026 NPR A new approach to brain health, one neuron at a time Faculty Scholar Paul Nuyujukian spoke to NPR's Short Wave podcast about his work on brain-machine interfaces and neurological disease
Image Press coverage | Apr 6 2026 HealthDay What sea creatures reveal about how fast people age Researchers who videotaped every moment in the lives of 81 African turquoise killfish gleaned intriguing insights into the aging process that may also apply to humans
Image Press coverage | Mar 18 2026 BBC Science Focus Just one day in your life could soon reveal how long you'll live After building a Truman Show experiment, scientists were able to predict the lifespans of their 81 subjects
Image Press coverage | Feb 10 2026 The Transmitter Aging neurons outsource garbage disposal, clog microglia Degradation-resistant proteins pass from neurons to glial cells in a process that may spread protein clumps around the brain, according to a study in mice.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2026 Nature Aging Past, present and future perspectives on the science of aging Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray and others talked to Nature Aging about aging research
Image Press coverage | Jan 27 2026 Time The race to measure aging—and why it matters Unlike chronological age, biological age can change and is a reflection of how your body's cells, tissues, and organs are functioning and aging
Image Press coverage | Jan 26 2026 Stanford Daily Neuroscience professor talks interdisciplinary learning in a curious world In a Wu Tsai Neuro seminar, Dani Bassett argued for a new perspective of curiosity
Image Press coverage | Jan 26 2026 Radiolab Brain balls Neural organoids have been revealing 'bombshell secrets about brain development.' But what are they?
Image Press coverage | Jan 4 2026 The Scientist Storytelling reveals how strokes impact speech Researchers assessed volunteers’ brain activity while they listened to stories, showing that strokes disrupt how the brain retains speech sounds.
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 27 2025 NPR What we learned about neuroscience in 2025 Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research last year, including a study from Wu Tsai Neuro scientists who replicated the brain's pain circuits.
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 | Dec 5 2025 Washington Post Shingles vaccine may actually slow progression of dementia, study shows If the results are confirmed, an expert said, the Knight Initiative-funded research "would be groundbreaking for dementia"
Image Press coverage | Dec 4 2025 CNN Shingles vaccine may slow progression of dementia, new study suggests A new study from Knight Initiative researchers suggests that the two-dose shingles shot also may slow the progression of dementia
Image Press coverage | Dec 3 2025 BBC Science Focus A dementia vaccine could be real, and some of us have taken it without knowing A Knight Initiative-funded project says shingles vaccination could protect you from getting dementia or slow the progression of the disease
