Featured News 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 | Jun 17, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute It’s time to revamp the motor homunculus An update to the 89-year-old model shows that the brain’s motor cortex isn’t as neatly organized as previously thought Image Research news | Jun 15, 2026 Stanford Medicine Cell types' biological age predicts our disease risk A blood-test analysis can determine the biological ages of individual cell types and predict the health consequences Displaying 1 - 2 news posts of 2 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 Podcast episodes | Mar 12, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why do some animals live longer than others? 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 Image Research news | May 16, 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience To study aging, researchers give killifish the CRISPR treatment A new study demonstrating CRISPR gene editing in killifish opens the doors for ambitious research on the biological drivers of aging.
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 | Jun 17, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute It’s time to revamp the motor homunculus An update to the 89-year-old model shows that the brain’s motor cortex isn’t as neatly organized as previously thought
Image Research news | Jun 15, 2026 Stanford Medicine Cell types' biological age predicts our disease risk A blood-test analysis can determine the biological ages of individual cell types and predict the health consequences
Image Podcast episodes | Mar 12, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why do some animals live longer than others? 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
Image Research news | May 16, 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience To study aging, researchers give killifish the CRISPR treatment A new study demonstrating CRISPR gene editing in killifish opens the doors for ambitious research on the biological drivers of aging.
