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HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Ivan Amato	The View from Here "Every major advance in imaging technology precipitates a new round of breakthroughs in cell biology," says structural biologist Grant Jensen, an HHMI investigator at the California Institute of Technology.
Chemistry World February 24, 2011 Carl Saxton	Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells.
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer	Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010	New live action microscopy lets scientists follow the first days of a zebrafish embryo's development The promise of live embryo imaging is unquestionable. Light-sheet microscopy will allow scientists for the first time to describe in detail the processes of development in complex vertebrates
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes	Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 R. John Davenport	Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images.
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Ivan Arnato	Light Moves Light is becoming the tool of choice for researchers who want to precisely manipulate neurons and other cells.
Chemistry World October 31, 2007 John Bonner	Brain's Wiring Seen in Technicolor Researchers in the US have developed a technique that could allow neurologists to draw a detailed wiring plan of the mammalian brain by inserting genes coding for fluorescent proteins into transgenic mice.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Prachi Patel	Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Jim Schnabel	Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Cassandra Willyard	A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011	Star Search Biologists have committed to studying mouse lemurs without sacrificing them, instead turning to genetics, imaging, and other noninvasive techniques honed through the study of other model organisms.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 R. John Davenport	Wired for Smell Circuits of excitation and inhibition help the brain interpret odors.
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Victoria Gill	Target for Memory-Enhancing Pills Identified Researchers have taken a step towards developing a pill that could improve memory by pinpointing and testing a potential target enzyme in the brain.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Jennifer Michalowski	Memory Cells at the Ready Special neurons give rodents a leg up when facing unfamiliar territory.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2008 Patrick Clinton	Salute to the Murines What can we say about modern medicine? The answer, of course, is that it's brilliant at curing the ailments of mice.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Brian Vastag	Hope Floats With a new arsenal of robust models of ALS, drug development may move to the fast track.
Chemistry World October 4, 2007 John Bonner	How Traumatic Events Leave a Mark on the Brain Researchers in the US have a discovered a potential mechanism to explain why people retain stronger memories of events that occur in emotionally charged situations.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Paul Muhlrad	Changing Channels Appetite and other deep-seated desires could be modified by altering brain ion channels, according to research at Janelia Farm.
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Kevin Davies	Allen Brain Institute Debuts 'Google for Gene Activity' The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released its first set of gene-expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes. The data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behavior.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Madeline Drexler	Mark Bear: Charting New Waters Bear has applied his discoveries in brain plasticity to understanding fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of mental impairment.
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jose M. Carmena	How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Forgetting Fear A compound given at just the right time may make mice forget to be afraid.
Chemistry World August 24, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Alzheimer's Researchers Tackle Waste Disposal The memory of mice with Alzheimer's-like symptoms is improved by inoculating the mice with an enzyme involved in protein degradation, report US researchers. The work could lead to new therapies for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Rabiya Tuma	Sister Act As a systems neuroscientist, Yang Dan integrates functional studies in animals with computer programs, computational tools, and statistics.
Chemistry World January 15, 2015 Emma Stoye	Blowing up brain tissue with swelling polymer delivers sharper images A new microscopic technique that magnifies specimens by blowing them up like a balloon could make it easier to produce high resolution images of cells and tissues.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C.P. Williams	Hungry for Pleasure, Hungry for Food Our drive to eat can be based on physical hunger or desire. The two aren't as separate as once thought.
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Emma Stoye	Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues.
Wired August 2001 Jennifer Kahn	Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind...
Entrepreneur August 2006 Amanda C. Kooser	Nice Mice You probably don't spend much time contemplating your computer mouse, but it may be time to re-evaluate. Some advances in mouse technology could make your computing life roll along more smoothly.
Fast Company George Lorenzo	How The Global Hive Mind Is Teaming Up To Find A Cure For Alzheimer's Some intrepid scientists are trying to exploit the hive mind -- teaming some of the smartest computation researchers in the world.
Scientific American October 2, 2005 Diane Martindale	One Face, One Neuron A recent study indicates that our brains employ far fewer cells to interpret a given image than previously believed, and the findings could help neuroscientists determine how memories are formed and stored.
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Eliza Strickland	A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections
Chemistry World March 2, 2009 James Urquhart	Shining a light on neural activity US researchers have developed a new way to activate brain neurons that could lead to less invasive methods of restoring function in damaged nerves and brain tissue.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones	Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Mary Bates	Passing the Sniff Test Researchers are mapping the chemical signaling behind how mice detect friend and foe.
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah Goforth	Scratching the Surface There's nothing funny about an itch that drives you mad.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Nora Taranto	Wiring the Brain with CSF Research by HHMI investigator Bernardo Sabatini suggests that self-reinforcing loops of neural activity may drive the development of synapses in the basal ganglia, a region of the brain that uses sensory and social context to direct movement.
Bio-IT World October 2006 Catherine Varmazis	Completion of Allen Brain Atlas Hailed as 'Epoch-Making' The Allen Brain Atlas is a Web-based, graphic 3-D database of the mouse brain that shows the location of expression sites of more than 21,000 genes at the cellular level. The completion of this database has important implications for research into neurological disorders that affect humans.
Chemistry World January 30, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Nanotubes protect brain tissue from stroke damage Researchers in Korea and the US have shown that modified carbon nanotubes can protect brain tissue from the damage caused by ischaemic stroke, where the blood supply to the brain is interrupted.
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Morgen E. Peck	Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface MEMS-based system could position electrodes in brain tissue to improve neural prosthetics.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2011 Wolfgang Gruener	Apple Envisions a Touchscreen for Your Mouse A patent application shows that Apple may have significant changes planned for the computer mouse.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Steve Furber	Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Nicole Kresge	Protein Precision in the Brain with CSF Two causes of autism arise from opposite cellular mechanisms. Too much or too little protein production at the synapse between neurons can cause autism and intellectual disability.
American Family Physician August 15, 2003 Evans et al.	Quantum Sufficit Impatience and a feeling of time urgency may increase young persons' risk of developing high blood pressure later in life... Prescription drug abuse among young people is on the rise... Learning to read forces the brain to do something it doesn't really want to do... etc.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Karl Deisseroth: In Support of Undirected Research A disease focus can color the scientific process.
Chemistry World October 6, 2015 Tim Wogan	Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring.