How does Alzheimer’s disease erode memory? New findings on risk gene offer insights

A 3 by 2 array of panels shows a top row of brain tissue squares in which black streaks are very clear. In the bottom row the streaks are less clear.
January 7, 2024
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The Number Five Is Nothing Like the Number Four

A portrait of Earl Miller
December 16, 2023
Read in The Atlantic

New lipid nanoparticles effectively deliver RNA to microglia

December 14, 2023
Read in Drug Target Review

A brain-monitoring device may one day take the guesswork out of anesthesia

An operating room scene shows a patient on a table. Our perspective is from behind the anesthesiologist who holds a mask on the patient's face and watches a monitor with a bunch of indicators. A surgeon stands out of focus on the far end of the patient.
November 22, 2023
Read in Science News

Alzheimer’s Risk Increased by Microglia Mutation

A colorfully stained section of a mouse hippocampus features scores of brightly glowing spiny-looking cells scattered throghout layers of tissue stained in blue and red
November 21, 2023
Read in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Rats Use the Power of Imagination to Navigate and Move Objects in a VR Landscape

Sherman Fairchild Professor in Neurobiology Matthew Wilson
November 2, 2023
Read in Scientific American
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