Skip to main content
Back The Picower Institute

Header Give Now Link

  • Give Now
Menu
Menu
  • People

    • People
    • Faculty
    • Research Browser
    • Director
    • Affiliates
    • Scientific Advisory Board
    • Administrators
  • Research

    • Research by Topic
    • Innovations & Inventions
    • Core Facilities
    • Research Browser
  • News

    • News
    • All
    • In the media
    • Newsletter
    • e-Newsletter
    • Research Browser
  • Events

    • Events
    • All
    • Research Browser
    • Seminars
    • The Picower Lectures
    • Special Events
    • Symposia
    • Internal Events
    • Past Events
  • Support

    • Support
    • Areas of Need
    • Ways of Giving
    • Volunteer for Research
  • About

    • About the Picower Institute
    • Education and Training
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    • Careers
    • Aging Brain Initiative
    • Climate Action
    • Contact
    • About
Subscribe
Please Choose One or More

THE PICOWER INSTITUTE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
43 Vassar Street, Bldg. 46-1303
Cambridge, MA 02139
(+1) 617-324-0305
(+1) 617-452-2588

Social Media

  • Linkedin
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Accessibility

Search

  • All
  • Events
  • News
  • People

You searched for: astrocytes

BRAIN grant will fund new tools to study astrocytes

Tuesday, Aug 27
… BRAIN grant will fund new tools to study astrocytes August 27, 2019 New Research Sur lab will lead … CRISPR, optogenetic innovations visual cortex motor cortex astrocytes astrocyte CRISPR/Cas9 In the brain, cells called astrocytes are at least as abundant as neurons, but are much …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/570

With new grant, MIT neuroscientists will give 'invisible' cells a new look

Thursday, Feb 08
… 'invisible' cells a new look February 8, 2018 New research Astrocytes may 'partner' with neurons to process information astrocytes glia visual cortex synapse development Neurons are … disorders. Above: An astrocyte; Top: Staining highlights astrocytes (red, left) and neurons (green, right). Credit: …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/164

Neural networks need more than neurons, new project posits

Thursday, Mar 04
… artificial intelligence by integrating brain cells called astrocytes astrocyte astrocytes Dopamine Artificial Intelligence With a new grant … artificial intelligence by integrating brain cells called astrocytes By encoding a feature of biological intelligence …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/764

Alzheimer’s risk gene disrupts endocytosis, but another disease-linked gene could help

Tuesday, Oct 06
… gene could help October 6, 2020 Research Findings Astrocytes with the APOE4 variant show deficits of key … but overexpressing PICALM overcame the defect endocytosis astrocytes neurodegeneration ApoE … this is so. The new study in Cell Reports finds that in astrocytes, which are the most common non-neuron cell in the …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/711

Imaging the brain at multiple size scales

Monday, Jul 25
https://picower.mit.edu/node/79

Study offers an explanation for why the APOE4 gene enhances Alzheimer’s risk

Wednesday, Mar 03
… They then stimulated these cells to differentiate into astrocytes, the brain cells that produce the most APOE. APOE4 astrocytes showed dramatic changes in how they process lipids compared to APOE3. In APOE4 astrocytes, there was a significant buildup of neutral lipids …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/763

Neuroscientists discover roles of gene linked to Alzheimer’s

Thursday, May 31
… higher risk of the disease neurodegeneration microglia astrocytes amyloid beta … cells to absorb the lipids. In the brain, cells known as astrocytes produce lipids, which are then secreted and taken … into three different types of brain cells: neurons, astrocytes, and microglia. Using the gene-editing system …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/337

Basic cell health systems wear down in Huntington’s disease, novel analysis shows

Tuesday, Feb 23
… datasets shows that as disease progresses, neurons and astrocytes lose the ability to maintain homeostasis mRNA … datasets shows that as disease progresses, neurons and astrocytes lose the ability to maintain homeostasis Using an … mutation, and cell type (certain neurons and astrocytes in a region of the brain called the striatum are …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/758

Mriganka Sur elected to the 2022 class of the AIMBE College of Fellows

Monday, Feb 28
https://picower.mit.edu/node/891

Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models

Monday, Dec 09
… How do gamma rhythms engage non-neuronal cells such as astrocytes and microglia? How does it propagate beyond the … from another group showed that blocking vesicle release in astrocytes can hinder gamma power in mice and Tsai’s group … found that auditory GENUS recruits an increase reactive astrocytes, which are more inclined to consume pathological …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/595

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Next page Next
  • Last page Last

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
43 Vassar Street, Bldg. 46-1303
Cambridge, MA 02139
(+1) 617-324-0305
(+1) 617-452-2588

Social Media

  • Linkedin
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Accessibility
Subscribe
Please Choose One or More
From: http://picower.mit.edu/search