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Diet affects our health by influencing body fat and the risk of developing heart and metabolic diseases. The gut microbiome, which includes various microorganisms living in our intestines, plays a crucial role in this diet-health connection. While much research has focused on gut bacteria, the role of other microorganisms, like Blastocystis, hasn’t been studied as […]

As organisms diversified on planet Earth, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others far less so. Still others went extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over others is a long-standing question in evolutionary science. Beetles are the poster child of evolutionary success: about 400,000 species are known—about a quarter of all […]

At the forefront of neuroscience, EEG technology is gradually uncovering the mysteries of how the brain processes language. While EEG datasets using non-Chinese corpuses as stimuli are relatively comprehensive, there is a notable absence of EEG datasets stimulated by Chinese corpuses. This gap constrains research on the language representation mechanism of the human brain in […]

Neurotechnologies are tools that combine engineering and brain science to create devices that help connect the brain to the outside world. Since the early 2000s, these technologies have been widely discussed in scientific studies and popular media because they are exciting and promising. They have the potential to improve lives in ways that drugs cannot. […]

On May 30th, 2024, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (China), Shanghai Mental Health Center and Brain Health Research Institute of National Medical Center for Mental Disease jointly held a seminar on “Brain Health Database Construction and Ethics of Science and Technology”. During the seminar, more than 30 renowned experts from the fields of mental […]

Dr. Mao Ying, President of Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research, along with his team, recently collaborated with Professor Wei Hua, Professor Zheng Ouyang from Department of Precision Instrument of Tsinghua University, Professor Graham Cooks from Purdue University and Professor Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa from Mayo Clinic […]

Caltech neuroscientists are making promising progress toward showing that a device known as a brain–machine interface (BMI), which they developed to implant into the brains of patients who have lost the ability to speak, could one day help all such patients communicate by simply thinking and not speaking or miming. Read more on the TCCI […]

Every year, more than 795,000 people experience having a stroke, often resulting in brain damage that impairs their ability to speak, walk, or perform tasks. Fortunately, in many cases, these abilities can be regained through physical therapy. With practice, our brains have remarkable abilities to rewire and repair themselves after damage. Researchers in the laboratory […]