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TCCI® Translational Center Co-organizes International Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation
The International Symposium on Translational Research in Brain Stimulation: Neurophysiology, Neural Coding and Neural Control was held in Shanghai in November 2019.The meeting was organized by Fudan University’s Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research, the National Engineering Laboratory for Neuromodulation, Tsinghua University, The Ministry […]
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Visualizing DNA Labels in Cells and Tissues
Caltech researchers have developed an innovative way to understand how individual cells communicate with each other and grow over time. Previous techniques have used DNA sequencing to detect DNA barcodes – a process which involves breaking down tissue samples so the DNA from individual cells can be extracted and sequenced. The new technique uses […]
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Scientists Identify a Genetic Basis for Healthy Sleep
Work done in the Caltech lab of David Prober, professor of biology and TCCI®-affiliated faculty member has identified a genetic pathway that is necessary and sufficient for proper sleep in zebrafish and appears to also regulate sleep in humans. This pathway regulates levels of a particular neural compound that could one day be a […]
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Big Biology: A Podcast feature Michael Dickinson
Michael Dickinson is TCCI®-affiliated faculty member and a biologist at Caltech who uses robots to study how insects fly. More recently, he has focused on insect neurobiology and behavior. On this episode of Big Biology, hosts Art and Marty talk with Michael about the mysteries of tiny insect flight, and how the presumably simple brains of […]
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Scientists Use a Haunted House to Study Fear
Researchers at Caltech are getting into the Halloween Spirit! Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics and director of the T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience and his colleague Dean Mobbs, an assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience and Chen Scholar at Caltech are teaming up with a seasonal haunted house near Los Angeles […]
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Tianqiao Chen Moves to Silicon Valley
This article is a translation of an article written and produced by Thecorestory x Guyu Lab. Text: Wei Ling, Photo: Feng Xinhui; Editor: Lin Shanshan; Production: Guyu x Thecorestory You can find the original Chinese article here: https://www.huxiu.com/article/322707.html More than money, love, medicine or time, it is truth that gives one […]
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Chen Scholar, Yuki Oka, Receives Grant to Study Innate Brain Circuits
Yuki Oka, assistant professor of biology and Chen Scholar at Caltech, has received $1.5 million in funding from the New York Stem Cell Foundation. The award, distributed over five years, is one of three given internationally to early career neuroscience researchers. Oka is the first researcher at Caltech to receive the neuroscience investigator award. […]
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Mending Broken Hearts with Neural Crest Cells
Zebrafish—striped fish a few centimeters long—have the ability to regrow up to 20 percent of their hearts after sustaining major damage. Research published in the journal eLife, done in the lab of Marianne Bronner, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, director of the Beckman Institute and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen […]
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Caltech Researcher Discovers that Male and Female Mouse Brains have Different Neurons
New research done in collaboration between David Anderson, PhD, Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience and a team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science recently discovered rare brain cell types that are unique to male mice and other types that […]
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TCCI® for Translational Research Yields New Discovery —Movie Watching as A Tool for Mental Disorder Assessment
A research project supported by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research recently identified an innovative approach to help identify mental disorders – analyzing one’s brain activity while watching movies. The paper introducing this discovery was published in the October issue of the international scientific journal Neuroimage. This study collected and analyzed the […]