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2021 TCCI Fall Newsletter
This year has flown by so quickly and it is with disbelief that Autumn is now suddenly upon us! As you can see below, momentum for TCCI in China has been building over the last few months. In July we were happy to establish our second Chen Frontier lab at Shanghai Mental Health Center.
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TCCI® for Neuroscience Research Building Awarded LEED Gold Certification
TCCI® for Neuroscience Research Building at Caltech has been awarded LEED Gold certification for its numerous sustainable features. This hub for studying the brain consumes nearly 30 percent less energy than a typical lab building. It also features native and drought-resistant vegetation, and serves as a model for resiliency with a one-megawatt fuel cell able […]
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Mice Can Learn Much Faster than Previously Thought
Your commute to work may seem like a mundane thing, but it is a great example of the complicated tasks our brains must carry out on a daily basis: navigation, memory, decision-making, sensory processing, and so on. Researchers often use animal models, such as mice, to study the neural processes underlying these behaviors. However, many […]
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Integrating Genetics and Proteomes to Identify Novel Drug Targets for Alzheimer’s
Recently, Professor Yu Jintai, a researcher from the Neurology Department of Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and a Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) Investigator and his team identified seven genes including the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene that can control the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease at various transcriptomic and expression levels by integrating genetics and proteomes […]
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The Science of Underground Kingdoms
Anthills…a mound of crumbly dirt to many but look closely and you’ll discover tunnels diving downward, branching and leading to specialized chambers that serve as home for the colony’s queen, as nurseries for its young, as farms for fungus cultivated for food, and as dumps for its trash. These are underground cities, some of them home […]
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New Technique Surveys Microbial Spatial Gene Expression Patterns
What do you do at different times in the day? What do you eat? How do you interact with your neighbors? These are some of the questions that biologists would love to ask communities of microbes, from those that live in extreme environments deep in the ocean to those that cause chronic infections in humans. […]
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TCCI® Investigator Professor Yu Jintai’s Team Discovers Correlations between Environmental Factors and Longevity
Professor Yu Jintai, a researcher from the Neurology Department of Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and a Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Investigator, and his team revealed for the first time a correlation between longevity and controllable environmental factors. Their findings were published July 20 2021 in the medical journal, BMC Medicine. In his research, […]
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Tencent Games Unveils Serious Games Exploration to Create Social Value
Tencent outlines “game as a service” efforts, teases latest endeavor, “Palvov: Brain’it On” Tencent, through the Social Value Research Center of Tencent Games, today shared its “game as a service” collaboration with industries to develop serious games at the International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH) conference, in its latest push […]
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Why is it so hard to quit drugs? Revealing the neurological mechanisms behind drug cravings.
TCCI® investigator, Professor Yuan Tifei from Shanghai Mental Health Center and his team recently worked with Professor Luo Wenbo’s team from Liaoning Normal University on research, published in Molecular Psychiatry, that revealed key findings related to the neurological mechanisms behind drug cravings. Previous studies both in laboratory animals and humans have reported that abstinence induces incubation […]
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TCCI® Holds First ZNext Webinar
On July 30, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute organized the first “TCCI® ZNext Webinar” in China. Four young scientists conducted online roundtable talks centered on the topic “How do we understand cognition and behaviors in real-world context?” and had the opportunity to ask and answer questions with other scholars and students watching the live […]