Neurotechnology | Picower Institute

Picower Institute Neuroscientists don't just apply the latest technologies and methods for studying the brain, they also often invent them. To learn more about how researchers here work at, and expand, the frontiers of research, select them under Research Topics and you'll find relevant Picower people, discoveries and events.

April 1, 2020

News Feature

Institute researchers are advancing their work in many ways despite time away from the lab required to corral Covid-19

March 13, 2020

Research Feature

Research on how the brain processes sight has told neuroscientists much about how the brain works more broadly

February 20, 2020

New Research

New NIH grant funds study that will span receptors, cells, the whole brain and behavior

December 16, 2019

News Feature

Stem cell, genetic technologies enable sophisticated studies of human brain cells and brain "organoids"

October 18, 2019

Events

Experts from around the world discuss "Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition"

October 7, 2019

News Feature

25 Years of Picower Institute research

August 27, 2019

New Research

Sur lab will lead collaboration to create CRISPR, optogenetic innovations

August 6, 2019

Research findings

Novel study shows protein CPG15 acts as a molecular proxy of experience to mark synapses for stabilization

July 31, 2019

Research Findings

Whitehead, Picower team finds drugs that activate a key brain gene; initial tests show promise for rare, untreatable neurodevelopmental disorder

July 10, 2019

Research findings

‘GDspike’ a new option for estimating neural activity from calcium fluorescence

May 14, 2019

Science and the Arts

Todd Siler 'A.R.T.strings' series donated to Picower Institute by D.A. Duke

May 1, 2019

Awards & Honors

Faculty members Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”