Neuroscience News

The symposium showcased research ranging from rejuvenating the brain’s immune system to predicting cognitive health, and celebrated the next chapter of the Knight Initiative

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

Knight Initiative researchers created a new atlas of aging in the killifish tracks how organs change over time, revealing processes implicated in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

Ten innovative postdoctoral scholars will pursue creative approaches to advance neuroscience and brain resilience research

After building a Truman Show experiment, scientists were able to predict the lifespans of their 81 subjects

Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Steering Committee member Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research

Knight Initiative scientists tracked every moment of the life of the African turquoise killifish, showing that behavior alone can forecast whether an animal will live a long or short life

We speak with Wu Tsai Neuro postdocs Claire Bedbrook and Ravi Nath about their new study that found that an animal's lifespan can be predicted surprisingly early by just looking at their behavior

Neuroscientists studying inflammation and age-related brain decline engineered a protein that spurs the growth of new neurons in aging mice

Stanford Data Science and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute launched the Center for Neural Data Science as a collaborative hub to accelerate discovery in neuroscience and train the next generation of data-driven neuroscientists

Anne Brunet will receive a Director's Pioneer Award, and Bianxiao Cui will receive a Director's Transformative Research Award.

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

Supported by the Big Ideas in Neuroscience program, research from the Brunet lab suggests the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron production in old or injured brains.

The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience supports 14 high-risk, high-reward projects to advance brain health and resilience research, fostering bold research across various scientific disciplines.

The Knight Initiative's Year-End Symposium and Research Showcase featured a wide range of promising new approaches to understanding brain aging, resilience, and neurodegeneration.

We are proud to welcome the 2024 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars — ten young scientists pursuing novel, multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the workings of the brain.