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1. Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine brings autopsy suite, morgue and decedent care into a single hospital space

   Stanford Hospital brings together two autopsy rooms, the morgue, including bereavement and viewing rooms, as well as decedent care team offices. The new space allows for more advanced research for the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and others.

   Jan 9 2024

   

2. Ground Truths (Eric Topol on Substack) Tony Wyss-Coray: The Science of Aging

   The science to advance our understanding of the aging process—and to potentially slow it down—has made important strides. One of the leading scientists responsible for this work is Professor Tony Wyss-Coray, whose work has focused on brain aging.

   Dec 26 2023

   • Brain aging
   • Clinical / translational research

   

3. Wu Tsai Neuro News Neurosciences seed grants fuel research in childhood epilepsy, eating disorders, Alzheimer's and more

   The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University is proud to announce the recipients of its fifth round of Seed Grants.

   Dec 18 2023

   • Technology development
   • Clinical / translational research
   • Discovery science

   

4. Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine-led study finds way to predict which of our organs will fail first

   A new study co-authored by Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins in blood, enabling the prediction of individuals’ risk for diseases.

   Dec 6 2023

   

5. Scientific American Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates

   It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more important for knowing disease risk is the biological age of each of your organs.

   Dec 6 2023

   

6. STAT News Using AI, scientists create blood test that measures organ aging and predicts disease risk

   In today’s mostly plague- and famine-free world, if you can avoid more modern scourges like gun and car violence, you can expect your death to arrive not with a bang but a whimper; when one of your organs sput-sput-sputters out.

   Dec 6 2023

   

7. Stanford Medicine Magazine Can we get along?

   Stanford Medicine queried Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliates share their expertise on the what the human brain are thinking about humans vs AI.

   Nov 10 2023

   

8. Research news Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration

   Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep.

   Oct 30 2023

   • Clinical / translational research
   • Brain function
   • Circuits and systems

   

9. Researcher profiles Q&A: Linking sleep, brain insulation, and neurological disease with postdoc Daniela Rojo

   Working in the Gibson Lab, Brain Resilience Postdoc Scholar Daniela Rojo looks at how abnormal changes in gene activity impact the cells involved in producing myelin to the extent that it leads to neurodegeneration in the brain.

   Oct 27 2023

   • Discovery science
   • Molecules and cells
   • Brain function

   

10. Inside Precision Medicine Fixing the Aging Brain

    The number one thing most people fear as they age is developing dementia. As the world’s population becomes increasingly older, this is a growing public health issue too.

    Oct 19 2023

    

11. Sarafan ChEM-H Driver of neurodegenerative diseases revealed

    In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Monther Abu-Remaileh and team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative condi

    Sep 14 2023

    

12. Research news Blood Cells Mutated in Old Age Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease

    Pathologist Siddhartha Jaiswal discovers a surprising twist to our biology: age-related mutations that increase the risk of blood disease also protect against brain disease.

    Aug 24 2023

    • Brain aging
    • Clinical / translational research
    • Molecules and cells

    

13. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Aging Mouse Brain Atlas Reveals White Matter Changes Most Over Time

    A study in mice suggests that the most pronounced changes that occur over time are in the white matter—neurons that are integral to transmitting signals across the brain. The research also examined how two anti-aging treatments—caloric restriction and inf

    Aug 21 2023

    

14. Neuroscience News Is the Brain’s White Matter an Unexpected Key to Aging and Memory?

    Funded in part by the Knight Initiative, researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study.

    Aug 21 2023

    

15. Research news Stanford Medicine-led research identifies gene ‘fingerprint’ for brain aging

    A study in mice finds that white matter — the tissue that transmits messages around the brain — shows the greatest changes as the animals age.

    Aug 17 2023

    

16. Research news To study aging, researchers give killifish the CRISPR treatment

    A new study demonstrating CRISPR gene editing in killifish opens the doors for ambitious research on the biological drivers of aging.

    May 16 2023

    • Brain aging
    • Discovery science
    • Molecules and cells

    

17. Wu Tsai Neuro News Wu Tsai Neuro & Knight Initiative announce 2023 postdoctoral scholars

    Interdisciplinary Postdocs and Brain Resilience Scholars will advance knowledge of brain health and aging.

    Jan 27 2023

    • Discovery science
    • Clinical / translational research
    • Technology development

    

18. Knight Initiative news Bold ideas to advance healthy brain aging win inaugural Knight Initiative grants

    The Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is proud to announce the recipients of its inaugural 2022 Innovation and Catalyst Grants.

    Dec 8 2022

    • Brain aging
    • Brain development
    • Brain function

    

19. Researcher profiles Q&A: Evolution of octopus and squid brains could shed light on origins of intelligence

    By studying the independent evolution of the cephalopod nervous system, researchers like Matt McCoy seek to look past the differences to see common features that could teach us fundamental truths about the evolution of intelligence itself.

    Aug 26 2022

    • Brain function
    • Discovery science
    • Molecules and cells

    

20. Research news Can we rejuvenate aging brains?

    Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues have turned up substances in blood that can accelerate or slow down the brain-aging clock. They've identified proteins on blood-vessel surfaces through which some of these molecules can act on the brain, despite the existenc

    Jul 29 2022