How Do MRI Contrast Agents Affect The Body?
When you get an MRI, you are often given something called a contrast agent. A contrast agent is a compound that helps increase the clarity of...
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Three NYSCF Innovators Receive Prestigious Awards
NYSCF — Robertson Investigators Claire Wyart, PhD, of the Brain & Spine Institute, France, Maria Lehtinen, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, and Ed Boyden, PhD, of...
NYSCF Chief Medical Officer Dr. Melissa Nirenberg Speaks At American Academy of Neurology Annual Conference
NYSCF’s Chief Medical Officer Melissa Nirenberg, MD, PhD, spoke at the American Academy of Neurology’s annual conference in Los Angeles. This meeting convenes medical professionals, students,...
Dr. Ed Boyden Shares How To Map And Repair The Brain
From controlling the brain with light to producing a movie to treat Alzheimer’s, the work of NYSCF — Robertson Investigator Alumnus and MIT professor Ed Boyden,...
NYSCF—Robertson Investigator Discovers Differences Between Opioid Receptors
If anyone has ever told you that your pain is “all in your head”, in a way, they’re right. The brain modulates how we feel pain...
NYSCF Innovators Explore How Methylation Affects Motor Neuron Development
Before a motor neuron can become a motor neuron, it has to undergo some important changes. One of these changes happens through a process called methylation....
What Causes Brain Wrinkles?
Why do our brains have wrinkles? The simple answer is to make them more efficient. Scientists think that as we evolved and our cortexes expanded, our...
Drumroll, Please! NYSCF Innovator Discovers That Neurons Fire in a Percussion-Like Pattern
New research shows that our neurons aren’t firing in a random electrical storm of activity—they’re following a controlled pattern. NYSCF — Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Alumnus and MIT...
NYSCF Innovator Discovers Mechanism Leading to Toxic Buildup in ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia
New research from the lab of NYSCF — Robertson Investigator Justin Ichida, PhD, at the University of Southern California suggests that a faulty gene can cause...
NYSCF — Robertson Investigator Sergiu Pasca Provides a Comprehensive Overview of The Field of Brain Organoids
NYSCF — Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Sergiu Pasca’s lab at Stanford University has been at the forefront of the new field of brain organoids and has...
New Research Shows How Our Brain Cells Give Rise To Our Likes And Dislikes
The amygdala is a tiny, almond-shaped brain structure that is home to our likes and dislikes. When we develop positive or negative feelings toward something, we...
Uncovering the Secrets Of Our Internal GPS
There’s a lot of work that goes into navigating through our world, and our brains take on much of the heavy lifting. The brain is full...
Pupil Size May Indicate Stages of Sleep
Our pupils are always changing size to regulate how much light is let into our eyes when we’re awake. Walk outside into the bright sun and...
NYSCF Innovator Uses Stem Cells To Uncover Genetic Abnormalities in Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is often studied by analyzing the brains of patients after they’ve passed away. These types of studies usually contain small sample sizes and focus on...
Spotlight on Paola Arlotta
NYSCF — Robertson Investigator alumna and Harvard University professor Paola Arlotta, PhD, is a revolutionary in developmental neurobiology. She studies how the brain develops, looking at the...
Obesity in Childhood May Cause Sleeping Troubles in Adulthood
People need sleep to keep alert, healthy, and productive. We often think that getting a better night’s sleep is just a matter of forcing ourselves to...
2017 Year in Review
As we enter 2018, NYSCF is taking a moment to look back on the milestones of 2017. With your support, we accelerated our research, began new...
NYSCF Panel Featured on Dana Foundation Blog
The Dana Foundation attended NYSCF’s recent talk, Unlocking the Diseases of the Brain with Stem Cells,” at NYSCF headquarters in Manhattan. The talk featured a panel...
NYSCF and Mount Sinai Researchers Recapitulate Alzheimer’s Disease in the Laboratory
NYSCF Research Institute scientists in collaboration with researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai refined a technique to turn skin cells from patients...
Announcing The 2017 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NYSCF welcomed six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists from around the world into the NYSCF Investigator Program and the NYSCF Innovator Community....
Unique and Comprehensive Collection of Stem Cell Lines Available to Researchers Around the Globe
NYSCF and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) partnered to create a unique and comprehensive collection of juvenile Batten (CLN3) disease induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells....
NYSCF Innovator Develops Robotic System to Monitor Individual Neurons
Recording electrical signals from individual neurons inside the living brain is a rich source of information about brain function and the role that neuron plays; however,...
NYSCF Innovator Illuminates the Brain Mechanisms of Pitch Perception
The neural process of understanding spoken language is extremely complex. The brain must interpret not only the sounds creating the words spoken, but also detect additional...
NYSCF Innovator Explores How the Brain Identifies Familiar Faces
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald and a team of researchers at The Rockefeller University discovered important insights into the brain areas and processes behind...
NYSCF Innovator Shows Zika’s Effects on Peripheral Nervous System
NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus Dr. Gabsang Lee and his team at Johns Hopkins University published their latest insights into how the zika virus causes...