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… of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer’s, and perhaps other, neurological diseases. 40Hz gamma … that produce these benefits has so far identified specific cellular and molecular responses in many brain cell types including …

… a new microscope system could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise visualization of metabolic and neuronal activity, … microscopy calcium imaging multiphoton imaging In vivo cellular imaging metabolism … exceptionally deep into brain tissues to detect the molecular activity of individual cells by using sound. “The …

… 428 donors, revealing insights for Alzheimer’s onset and potential treatments. neurodegeneration dementia blood … of MIT and Harvard recently unveiled a systematic molecular atlas of human brain vasculature and its changes in … and multiple sclerosis. However, the molecular and cellular underpinnings of BBB dysregulation remain …

… 3, 2025 New Research Assistant Professor Sara Prescott and Research Affiliate Ravikiran Raju are key collaborators … how do each of those programs actually work down to the cellular and molecular level? Raju: Efforts to combat adversity and stress …

… see how disease affects major brain cell types and identify common, potentially targetable pathways … the disease’s disruptions converge on five main areas of cellular function, or “pathways,” in each of five major brain … in each. “By identifying vulnerable cell types and the molecular programs that give rise to them, therapeutic …

… support from The Marcus Foundation, an MIT neuroscientist and a Harvard Medical School immunologist will study the … beneficial effects associated with fever may arise from molecular changes in the immune system during infection, … work in mice seeking to uncover the sequence of molecular, cellular and neural circuit effects triggered by IL-17a and …

… a broadening landscape of studies showing what’s known, and what remains to be found, about the therapeutic potential … that they are also associated with specific changes at the cellular and molecular level. The 2016 study and many others since then …

… epigenetics chromatin Single Cell Transcriptomics and Epigenomics … information are many specific findings pinpointing molecular circuitry that breaks down by cell type, by region, … of the mechanisms that contribute to the breakdowns of cellular and network function in the brain,” said Picower …

… how non-neural cells indispensably contribute to function, and why their roles can make them promising treatment targets … Vascular cells: In 2022, Heiman co-led one of the first cellular “atlases” of the brain’s vasculature . Her team … and responsive tissues that stringently filter what molecular materials can move through the “blood-brain …