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MIT invents human brain model with six major cell types to enable personalized disease research,...

Cultured from induced pluripotent stem cells, ‘miBrains’ integrate all major brain cell types and model brain structures, cellular interactions, activity, and pathological features.

MIT-based team advances to semi-finals of Gates-funded competition to apply ’agentic’ AI to...

“FINGERPRINT” proposes to use AI to link discovery, prevention, therapy by reasoning across multiple biological and clinical data sets.

Review: Evidence expanding that 40Hz gamma stimulation promotes brain health

A decade of studies from labs around the world provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer’s, and perhaps other, neurological...

Longevity Hubs

Populations around the world are aging, and older adults' economic influence—already considerable—stands to grow markedly in the decades ahead. Finding w...

Learning the secrets of neural longevity could benefit the aging brain and body alike, research...

With a new Glenn Foundation Discovery Award, the Heiman Lab will study the genetic and molecular basis for the exceptional longevity of neurons in hopes of using that insight to help sustain aging...

Whitehead Institute researchers uncover a new clue toward understanding the molecular basis of...

In Parkinson’s disease, clumps of sticky proteins trigger inflammation in the brain, leading to neuronal death. Whitehead Institute’s Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch and colleagues have now found...

Study reveals ways in which 40Hz sensory stimulation may preserve brain’s ‘white matter’

MIT scientists report that gamma frequency light and sound stimulation preserves myelination in mouse models and reveal molecular mechanisms that may underlie the benefit.

Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections

A newly described technology improves the clarity and speed of using two-photon microscopy to image synapses in the live brain