Featured News Image Researcher profiles | Jan 27 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Unraveling the role of endocannabinoid metabolism in brain aging Research supported by a Knight Initiative Catalyst Grant explores whether targeting pathways related to the brain’s “chill-out” system could restore youthful resilience and improve cognitive function. Image News Features | Jan 24 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Non-invasive brain stimulation opens new ways to study and treat the brain A new generation of researchers at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is developing tools to modify brain activity for research and clinical applications—without drilling through the skull. Image Director's messages | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Director's Message, Winter 2025 Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2025, reflects on our recent milestones, and shares some exciting developments on the horizon. Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain 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 News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroHealth News TypeResearch news Podcast episodes Press coverage Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Podcast episodes | Mar 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The clocks in your body This week, we sit down with neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray to learn about how some of your organs may be aging faster than the rest of you. Image Research news | Feb 23 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Researchers connect ALS hallmark to gene Wu Tsai Neuro researchers have linked a specific gene known to be associated with ALS with a characteristic of the disease, opening avenues for a targeted therapy. Image Research news | Aug 23 2017 Stanford Medicine Magazine Memory aid Stanford researchers have found that blood from newborn humans can rejuvenate learning and memory in aged mice, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for age-associated declines in mental ability. Research news | Jul 27 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope One researcher’s journey to understand the molecular basis of aging, using blood Studies by the Wyss-Coray lab and others have shown that organ stem cells retain their regenerative capacity, but the biochemical cues that control their function change with age — causing the abandonment of tissue maintenance and repair in the elderly. Image Press coverage | Jun 21 2016 NIH Director's Blog Creative Minds: A New Chemistry for Aging Research? Tony Wyss-Coray recently received a 2015 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award to build a potentially game-changing tool to track the aging process in mice. Research news | Sep 4 2015 Second Nexus The Science Behind Vampires: How Blood May Keep You Young By year’s end, we may learn whether injecting old people with blood from young people can improve their memory and even reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Research news | Aug 5 2015 The Guardian Can we reverse the ageing process by putting young blood into older people? A series of experiments has produced incredible results by giving young blood to old mice. Now the findings are being tested on humans. Ian Sample meets the scientists whose research could transform our lives. Research news | Feb 5 2015 Huff Post World Economic Forum Davos 2015 Wrap-Up: Get Ready for Breakthroughs About the Brain Interestingly, and on a cheerier note, one of the biggest themes programmed into the Davos agenda this January was a series of events on the new scientific developments about the brain. Research news | Jan 27 2015 Forbes Youth; It's In The Blood A raft of rodent experiments has demonstrated that blood transfusions from a young donor reverse the effects of aging in older recipients over recent years.
Image Researcher profiles | Jan 27 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Unraveling the role of endocannabinoid metabolism in brain aging Research supported by a Knight Initiative Catalyst Grant explores whether targeting pathways related to the brain’s “chill-out” system could restore youthful resilience and improve cognitive function.
Image News Features | Jan 24 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Non-invasive brain stimulation opens new ways to study and treat the brain A new generation of researchers at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is developing tools to modify brain activity for research and clinical applications—without drilling through the skull.
Image Director's messages | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Director's Message, Winter 2025 Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2025, reflects on our recent milestones, and shares some exciting developments on the horizon.
Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain 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
Image Podcast episodes | Mar 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The clocks in your body This week, we sit down with neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray to learn about how some of your organs may be aging faster than the rest of you.
Image Research news | Feb 23 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Researchers connect ALS hallmark to gene Wu Tsai Neuro researchers have linked a specific gene known to be associated with ALS with a characteristic of the disease, opening avenues for a targeted therapy.
Image Research news | Aug 23 2017 Stanford Medicine Magazine Memory aid Stanford researchers have found that blood from newborn humans can rejuvenate learning and memory in aged mice, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for age-associated declines in mental ability.
Research news | Jul 27 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope One researcher’s journey to understand the molecular basis of aging, using blood Studies by the Wyss-Coray lab and others have shown that organ stem cells retain their regenerative capacity, but the biochemical cues that control their function change with age — causing the abandonment of tissue maintenance and repair in the elderly.
Image Press coverage | Jun 21 2016 NIH Director's Blog Creative Minds: A New Chemistry for Aging Research? Tony Wyss-Coray recently received a 2015 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award to build a potentially game-changing tool to track the aging process in mice.
Research news | Sep 4 2015 Second Nexus The Science Behind Vampires: How Blood May Keep You Young By year’s end, we may learn whether injecting old people with blood from young people can improve their memory and even reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Research news | Aug 5 2015 The Guardian Can we reverse the ageing process by putting young blood into older people? A series of experiments has produced incredible results by giving young blood to old mice. Now the findings are being tested on humans. Ian Sample meets the scientists whose research could transform our lives.
Research news | Feb 5 2015 Huff Post World Economic Forum Davos 2015 Wrap-Up: Get Ready for Breakthroughs About the Brain Interestingly, and on a cheerier note, one of the biggest themes programmed into the Davos agenda this January was a series of events on the new scientific developments about the brain.
Research news | Jan 27 2015 Forbes Youth; It's In The Blood A raft of rodent experiments has demonstrated that blood transfusions from a young donor reverse the effects of aging in older recipients over recent years.