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How Insects Control Their Wings: The Mysterious Mechanics of Insect Flight
Many of us would love the superpower to fly, and for good reason: Flight offers a crucial evolutionary advantage. Flying enables an animal to travel large distances quickly, in search of food and new habitats, while expending far less energy than walking. Through flight, insects colonized the planet and fostered the massive diversification of flowering […]
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Debunking a Decades-Long Misconception about the Origin of the Vertebrate Sympathetic Nervous System
For decades, researchers believed that lamprey—eel-like jawless fish—did not have sympathetic neurons, which are a part of the peripheral nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is made up of nerves that target internal organs throughout the body, including the heart, pancreas, and gut. Persistent activity of the sympathetic nervous system is required to maintain homeostasis, […]
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Henry Lester Receives Langley Award for Basic Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Congratulations to Professor of Biology Henry Lester who has been named the 2024 recipient of the Langley Award for Basic Research on Nicotine and Tobacco from the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT). The Langley Award Honors scientists who have made groundbreaking advances in basic nicotine research in the areas of pharmacology, neuroscience, […]
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2024 TCCI Spring Newsletter
Dear Friends, Spring has sprung and we are happy to share with you our 2023 Annual Report. The report aims to recap for you the tremendous research conducted by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research in Shanghai and the Chen Frontier Labs. It also details the many scientific meetings we support around the world.
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TCCI Sponsors the Charitable Popular Science Project Initiated by GASA
On March 23, 2024, the 100th session of “GASA Science Classics”, a charitable popular science project sponsored by Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®), was held at the Shanghai Science Hall. Professor Bai Lu from Tsinghua University, together with a number of scientists and scholars, introduced The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of Revolution in […]
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TCCI Hosts Annual Conference for Chinese Investigators Tianqiao Chen: Focusing on Two Directions to Promote AI + Brain Science
On March 23, 2024, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) held an annual conference for its Chinese investigators in Shanghai. Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo, the founders of the Institute, attended the conference via video conferencing to introduce two key scientific research fields, namely, AI + Memory and AI + Health (mental health, healthy […]
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A Journey Into the Brain
With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy. The Scientists speaks with Beverly Davidson, a scientist at UPenn and Viviana Gradinaru, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Gradinaru’s work focuses on adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors as […]
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When Does the Brain Process Reward and Risk?
Imagine that you are considering buying stock in a company. You know what its current value is, and you suspect that you could make a healthy return on your investment. But this stock is very volatile: some days up, some days down. Yes, you could make a lot of money, but you could also lose […]
