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Study finds circular RNA helps drive brain development

October 16, 2025
… Findngs Study finds circular RNA helps drive brain development MIT neuroscientists show in a new study that … neurons build circuit connections, or synapses, during the development of the visual system in young mice. Wiring up the … interfering with circHomer1 not only undermined the normal development of synapses, but also delayed visual system …

The Developing Brain

July 11, 2018

‘SCOUT’ helps researchers find, quantify significant differences among organoids

December 08, 2020

In ‘minibrains,’ hindering key enzyme by different amounts has opposite growth effects

May 10, 2021
… organoid cultures, explain role of GSK3-beta in brain development Like many around the world, the lab of Professor … organoids, or “minibrains,” for studying human brain development in health and disease. By making a surprising … important roles a prevalent enzyme takes in natural brain development. To make organoids, scientists take skin cells …

Advanced imaging reveals mired migration of neurons in Rett syndrome lab models

July 29, 2022
… in Rett syndrome lab models Using organoids to model early development, researchers used an emerging microscopy … how the mutation affects the early stages of human brain development, researchers in the lab Mriganka Sur , Newton … Then the team led by postdoc Murat Yildirim examined the development of each type of minibrain using an advanced …

In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic a senescence-like state

January 06, 2022

MIT Team Reveals What Happens to Brain Immune Cells During Alzheimer’s Development

December 07, 2017
… What Happens to Brain Immune Cells During Alzheimer’s Development Alzheimer's News Today reports on new findings … What Happens to Brain Immune Cells During Alzheimer’s Development Alzheimer's Disease …

Grant fuels effort to develop new Alzheimer’s drug

May 22, 2020

Beckman Foundation Names Mark Bear as 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award Winner

August 07, 2018
… breakthroughs in vision research; particularly through the development of an innovative technology or fundamental … circumstances in animal models, raising hope for development of new approaches to cure amblyopia, even in … of sensory input and has the potential to accelerate the development of novel therapeutic interventions for treatment …

Connect or reject: Extensive rewiring builds binocular vision in the brain

July 01, 2025
… neurons add and shed synapses at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes. … days in the same live mouse through a critical period of development, to ask, what happens to the synapses or spines … a spine was, the more likely it was to be retained during development.” The researchers also noticed another trend. …

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