Featured News Image Research news | Aug 5 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Aging brains welcome reinforcements from outside immune cells The discovery from an unusual team of computer scientists and pathologists overturns longstanding dogma – and could point the way toward new therapies for neurodegenerative disease Image Podcast episodes | Jul 30 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How brain imaging is transforming mental health We talk with psychiatrist Leanne Williams about how brain scans could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders Image Research news | Jul 17 2026 Stanford Medicine Breakdown of immune cells’ interaction is key driver in aging, study finds Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs Image Research news | Jun 24 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Why do some cells die in ALS but not others? New Knight Initiative research identifies a molecular signature in vulnerable cells that could lead to treatments to promote ALS resilience Displaying 1 - 3 news posts of 3 Filter Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest News Type Wu Tsai Neuro News Knight Initiative news Director's messages Research news Researcher profiles News Features Awards and honors Podcast episodes Press coverage Publications Research Theme NeuroDiscovery Image Research news | Oct 12 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Human brain cells transplanted into rat brains hold promise for neuropsychiatric... Lab-grown clusters of human brain cells integrate so well into young rats’ brains they enable researchers to study neurodevelopmental disorders’ molecular and circuit underpinnings. Image Research news | May 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuro-omics initiative sheds light on how neuronal connections are formed New work from Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Liqun Luo and his lab uses a novel proteomics technique developed through the Neuro-omics initiative to understand how a limited number of genes can specify trillions of unique connections. Image Press coverage | Jan 11 2019 Science Assembling human brain organoids Brain development is a remarkable self-organization process in which cells proliferate, differentiate, migrate, and wire to form functional neural circuits.
Image Research news | Aug 5 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Aging brains welcome reinforcements from outside immune cells The discovery from an unusual team of computer scientists and pathologists overturns longstanding dogma – and could point the way toward new therapies for neurodegenerative disease
Image Podcast episodes | Jul 30 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How brain imaging is transforming mental health We talk with psychiatrist Leanne Williams about how brain scans could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders
Image Research news | Jul 17 2026 Stanford Medicine Breakdown of immune cells’ interaction is key driver in aging, study finds Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs
Image Research news | Jun 24 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Why do some cells die in ALS but not others? New Knight Initiative research identifies a molecular signature in vulnerable cells that could lead to treatments to promote ALS resilience
Image Research news | Oct 12 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Human brain cells transplanted into rat brains hold promise for neuropsychiatric... Lab-grown clusters of human brain cells integrate so well into young rats’ brains they enable researchers to study neurodevelopmental disorders’ molecular and circuit underpinnings.
Image Research news | May 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuro-omics initiative sheds light on how neuronal connections are formed New work from Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Liqun Luo and his lab uses a novel proteomics technique developed through the Neuro-omics initiative to understand how a limited number of genes can specify trillions of unique connections.
Image Press coverage | Jan 11 2019 Science Assembling human brain organoids Brain development is a remarkable self-organization process in which cells proliferate, differentiate, migrate, and wire to form functional neural circuits.
