Featured News 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, reflect 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 News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 Neuroscience Research in Review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Awards and honors Press coverage Wu Tsai Neuro News Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Research news | Apr 24 2024 Stanford Medicine Brain organoids and assembloids are new models for elucidating, treating neurode... New research led by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Sergiu Pasca on Timothy syndrome may have implications beyond the rare genetic disorder — including conditions like schizophrenia. Supported by the Wu Tsai Neuro Big Ideas in Neuroscience grant program. Image Awards and honors | Feb 11 2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Sergiu P. Paşca Receives the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his Pioneering Work i... The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jun 1 2021 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Toolmakers aim to untangle fundamental challenges in neuroscience Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute advances its ambitious “Big Ideas” Initiatives to the next level Image Research news | Mar 17 2021 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute New genetic comparison technique developed at Stanford enables meticulous study ... In separate studies, researchers compared gene regulation related to brain and face development in humans and chimpanzees using a new technique. In both cases, they discovered new genetic differences between these species. Image Research news | Dec 16 2020 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford scientists assemble human nerve circuit driving voluntary movement A Stanford Medicine team used human stem cells to assemble a working nerve circuit connecting brain tissue to muscle tissue. The research could enable scientists to better understand neurological disorders that affect movement. Image Research news | Sep 28 2020 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford scientists solve secret of nerve cells marking a form of schizophrenia A common genetic deletion boosts the risk for schizophrenia by 30-fold. Generating nerve cells from people with the deletion has showed Stanford researchers why. Image Research news | Jan 28 2019 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Scientists generate, track development of myelin-producing brain cells Studying human oligodendrocytes, which provide insulation for nerve cells, has been challenging. But a new way of generating stem-cell-derived, three-dimensional brain-cell cultures is paying off.
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, reflect 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 News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 Neuroscience Research in Review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year
Image Research news | Apr 24 2024 Stanford Medicine Brain organoids and assembloids are new models for elucidating, treating neurode... New research led by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Sergiu Pasca on Timothy syndrome may have implications beyond the rare genetic disorder — including conditions like schizophrenia. Supported by the Wu Tsai Neuro Big Ideas in Neuroscience grant program.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 11 2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Sergiu P. Paşca Receives the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his Pioneering Work i... The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Jun 1 2021 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Toolmakers aim to untangle fundamental challenges in neuroscience Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute advances its ambitious “Big Ideas” Initiatives to the next level
Image Research news | Mar 17 2021 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute New genetic comparison technique developed at Stanford enables meticulous study ... In separate studies, researchers compared gene regulation related to brain and face development in humans and chimpanzees using a new technique. In both cases, they discovered new genetic differences between these species.
Image Research news | Dec 16 2020 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford scientists assemble human nerve circuit driving voluntary movement A Stanford Medicine team used human stem cells to assemble a working nerve circuit connecting brain tissue to muscle tissue. The research could enable scientists to better understand neurological disorders that affect movement.
Image Research news | Sep 28 2020 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford scientists solve secret of nerve cells marking a form of schizophrenia A common genetic deletion boosts the risk for schizophrenia by 30-fold. Generating nerve cells from people with the deletion has showed Stanford researchers why.
Image Research news | Jan 28 2019 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Scientists generate, track development of myelin-producing brain cells Studying human oligodendrocytes, which provide insulation for nerve cells, has been challenging. But a new way of generating stem-cell-derived, three-dimensional brain-cell cultures is paying off.
