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🔒 Nature: The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health

Dec 3, 2025

A rush of studies from labs in many subfields are revealing just how important astrocytes are in shaping our behavior, mood and memory.

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Dec 3, 2025

A tech company is working on creating “micro-emotions” within AI to see how it effects their behavior, but not everyone buys into the idea.

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The Scientist: A New Cell Atlas Helps Researchers Navigate the Developing Brain

Dec 2, 2025

Researchers collaborating on a BRAIN Initiative project unveiled the most comprehensive map of developing mammalian brains to date.

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🔒 Washington Post: These people experienced near death. Here’s how it changed their lives.

Nov 23, 2025

As many as 17 percent of people have had a near-death experience and these events can permanently affect a person’s life.

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The Transmitter: Gene replacement therapy normalizes some traits in SYNGAP1 model mice

Nov 20, 2025

The first published virus-based gene therapy for SYNGAP1 deletion yields benefits despite the gene’s long length and complexity.

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Daily Mail: Stunning simulation details 10 MILLION neurons across 86 interconnected regions

Nov 17, 2025

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of the brain ever created with Fugaku, Japan's ultra–fast supercomputer.

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GeekWire: Scientists create a supercomputer simulation that can reveal how the brain works, neuron by neuron

Nov 17, 2025

The simulation could eventually open the way to understanding the mechanisms behind brain disease.

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GeekWire: Allen Institute taps AWS, Google to spur ‘aha moments’ in neuroscience with new brain research platform

Nov 13, 2025

The project aims to unify brain information from dozens of collaborators, species, and samples that span early development to old age.

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Yahoo News: Two-tiered atlas of the developing human brain offers new hope in Parkinson’s treatment

Nov 12, 2025

This work sits alongside the U.S. NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network to build a complete atlas of human brain cells.

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The Transmitter: A community-designed experiment tests open questions in predictive processing

Nov 12, 2025

More than 50 scientists came together to identify the key missing data needed to rigorously test theoretical models.

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