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Promoting Parenting Practices
Shelby Bradford, PhD | Feb 1, 2024 | 2 min read
Pregnancy hormones help mice prepare to take care of their young by altering activity in neurons.
How a Parasite Excites the Brain
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Feb 1, 2024 | 2 min read
Tapeworm larvae may cause seizures by releasing excitatory amino acids into the brain.
Blood-based Biomarkers: New Outlooks for Neurological Disorders
Quanterix | 1 min read
Ultra-sensitive biomarkers and immunoassays help researchers investigate neurological health and disease, leading to new therapeutics and diagnostics.
The Culprits Behind Motion Sickness
Hannah Thomasy, PhD | Feb 1, 2024 | 2 min read
Scientists identified neurons that drive the disagreeable symptoms of motion sickness in mice.
A Glowing Mouse Map
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Feb 1, 2024 | 2 min read
A whole-body immunostaining method allowed researchers to achieve cellular resolution at the whole-organism level.
The Scientist’s Journal Club: Olfaction and the Brain
The Scientist | 1 min read
Gonzalo Otazu will discuss how the brain processes smells differently in neurotypical mice compared to a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder.
Researchers CHOOSE Organoids to Investigate Neurodevelopment
Deanna MacNeil, PhD | Jan 29, 2024 | 4 min read
A 3D variation of pooled CRISPR screens could connect the dots between autism spectrum disorder genetics and cell fate pathways in the developing brain.
A Gut Feeling About Parkinson’s Disease
Zunnash Khan | Jan 25, 2024 | 3 min read
CD4 T cells mediate gut symptoms that indicate early Parkinson’s disease.
Smart Gateways into the Lab of the Future
The Scientist | 2 min read
Neurobiologists, computer scientists, and engineers join forces to grow mini brains using automation and make their technologies smarter with artificial intelligence.
Forget Something? You’re Supposed To Do That
Shelby Bradford, PhD | Jan 22, 2024 | 3 min read
Forgetting things appears to be a productive process and not a passive loss of information.
The Problem with Protocols
Tanvir Khan, PhD | Jan 22, 2024 | 4 min read
Faced with a lack of consensus in published protocols, researchers found optimal conditions for enhancing cortical neuron adhesion and maturation in culture.
The Scientist's Journal Club: Transcriptomics
The Scientist | 2 min read
Scientists discuss their latest findings on immune cell dynamics, neurodegenerative disease risk factors, and rare cell types obtained from bulk and single cell RNA sequencing experiments.
Charting a New Course Through the Injured Brain
Rashmi Shivni | Jan 15, 2024 | 4 min read
A state-of-the-art technique helps scientists map out tissue at the single cell level after a demyelinating brain injury.
All-nighters Sometimes Combat Depression
Hannah Thomasy, PhD | Jan 5, 2024 | 3 min read
Dopamine pathways play a key role in the surprising effects of sleep deprivation on mood.
Precision Medicine-Based Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury
The Scientist | 1 min read
In this webinar, Dr. Kevin Wang will discuss a precision medicine approach for treating traumatic brain injury which uses phenotype biomarkers to monitor disease course and develop novel therapies.
A Story of Mice and FIRE
Niamh McNamara, PhD and Veronique Miron, PhD | Dec 4, 2023 | 9 min read
Studying how microglia control myelin growth and prevent its degeneration helps scientists better understand and address neurodegenerative diseases.
Infographic: Mitochondria, the Cellular Processors
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Dec 4, 2023 | 1 min read
Following decades of being called “the powerhouse of the cell,” researchers recently proposed a new description that reflects the multifaceted roles of mitochondria.
Starting with Human Cell Systems
The Scientist | 1 min read
Xitiz Chamling shares how advances in human stem cell and gene editing technologies fuel his drive for better multiple sclerosis drug screening platforms.
A Microbial Link to Parkinson’s Disease
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Dec 4, 2023 | 6 min read
Haydeh Payami helped uncover the genetic basis of Parkinson’s disease. Now, she hopes to find new ways to treat the disease by studying the gut microbiome.
Infographic: Microglia Influence Myelin Health
The Scientist Staff | Dec 4, 2023 | 1 min read
In FIRE mice, the lack of microglia causes myelin overgrowth and eventual degeneration, indicating that microglia may contribute to age-related neurodegenerative diseases.