In a recent paper published in ACS Nano, a team of researchers led by Professor Nicholas Melosh and Dr. Nofar Mintz Hemed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University describe their innovative, dopamine-binding molecularly imprinted polymers (MIP) that have a limit of detection in the sub-nanomolar range and does not require […]

Glioma recurrence has long plagued patients and neurosurgeons however with the development of molecular diagnosis of glioma, research recently published in the journal Nature, has become increasingly precise. A recent study by Mao Ying, President of Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and Director of TCCI Translational Center, and Professor Hua Wei from the Neurosurgery Department of […]

Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of the major medical success stories of the 20th century, but it’s far from perfect. Anyone who has been through chemotherapy or who has had a friend or loved one go through it will be familiar with its many side effects: hair loss, nausea, weakened immune system, […]

In 2018, researchers in the Caltech laboratory of Yuki Oka, Chen Scholar, professor of biology and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, made a major discovery: they identified a type of neuron, or brain cell, that mediates thirst satiation. But they were running into a problem: a state-of-the-art technique called single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) could not […]

Music is core to the human experience yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music perception remain unknown. Dr. Gerwin Schalk, Director of the Chen Frontier Lab for Neurotechnology was part of a team of researchers who analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) dataset of 29 patients who listened to a Pink Floyd song and applied […]

A study, recently published in the journal Nature Human Behavior (IF: 30) by the clinical research team of Prof. Yu Jintai from the Department of Neurology at Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital, comprehensively mapped the modifiable risk factors for dementia for the first time. The research explored their joint effect on dementia and predicted that 47% […]

Making hand movements in response to visual cues is common in daily life. It has been well known that this process activates multiple areas in the brain, but how these neural activations progress across space and time remains largely unknown. Taking advantage of intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) recordings using depth and subdural electrodes from 36 human […]