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LA JOLLA—Salk Institute scientist Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, has received an award of up to $41.3 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the United …
LA JOLLA—Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child’s brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic connections between neurons. These wiring patterns become more stable with age, but …
LA JOLLA—Los profesores del Salk Joseph Ecker, PhD; Ronald Evans, PhD; Rusty Gage, PhD; Christian Metallo, PhD; Satchidananda Panda, PhD; Reuben Shaw, PhD; y Kay Tye, PhD, así como el asistente de investigación Joseph Nery, todos ellos...
LA JOLLA—The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Salk neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, to receive a 2025 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The prestigious award is given to scientists proposing …
LA JOLLA—Salk Professor Terrence Sejnowski, head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and holder of the Francis Crick Chair, has been elected to the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society. …
LA JOLLA—Three Salk Institute faculty members have been promoted for their notable, innovative contributions to science. Associate Professors Nicola Allen and Diana Hargreaves were promoted to full professors, and Assistant Professor …
LA JOLLA—Los profesores del Salk Joseph Ecker, Ronald Evans, Rusty Gage, Satchidananda Panda, Reuben Shaw y Kay Tye, así como el asistente de investigación Joseph Nery, han sido nombrados para la lista Highly...
LA JOLLA—The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Salk Associate Professor Nicola Allen to receive a 2024 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The award recognizes exceptionally creative scientists pursuing highly …
LA JOLLA—Scientists at the Salk Institute are unveiling a new brain-mapping neurotechnology called Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START). The cutting-edge tool combines two advanced technologies—monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and …
LA JOLLA—El profesor Rusty Gage ha sido galardonado con el Premio Internacional J. Allyn Taylor en Medicina 2024 por la Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry y el Robarts Research Institute en…
LA JOLLA—El Instituto Salk recibió $3.6 millones del Instituto de Medicina Regenerativa de California (CIRM), una de las instituciones más grandes del mundo dedicadas a la medicina regenerativa. El profesor de Salk Rusty Gage…
LA JOLLA—El Instituto Salk recibirá $20 millones durante cuatro años de la Fundación NOMIS para lanzar una nueva Iniciativa de Neuroinmunología dentro del Centro NOMIS de Inmunobiología y Microbiana del Instituto…
LA JOLLA—Dentro de cada una de nuestras células, largas hebras de ADN se pliegan en cromosomas y se tapan con estructuras protectoras llamadas telómeros. Pero los telómeros se acortan a medida que envejecemos, llegando eventualmente a un punto tan...
LA JOLLA—With each flip you make through a deck of vocabulary word flashcards, their definitions come more quickly, more easily. This process of learning and remembering new information strengthens important …
LA JOLLA—Como parte de su programa $de 7 millones de dólares “Prebys Research Heroes”, la Fundación Prebys otorgó a la Profesora de Salk Tatyana Sharpee y a la Profesora Asistente Dannielle Engle $500.000 cada una para financiar sus investigaciones. …
LA JOLLA—Salk Institute Professor Terrence Sejnowski will receive the 2024 Brain Prize for “pioneering the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience, making seminal contributions to our understanding of the brain, …
LA JOLLA—El cerebro se representa típicamente como una compleja red de neuronas que envían y reciben mensajes. Pero las neuronas solo constituyen la mitad del cerebro humano. La otra mitad —aproximadamente 85...
LA JOLLA—El profesor Rusty Gage y el profesor asistente Pallav Kosuri del Instituto Salk han recibido $1.3 millones de dólares de la Fundación W. M. Keck para financiar una investigación novedosa sobre la forma en que…
LA JOLLA—Salk Institute Professor Terrence Sejnowski has been named 2024 Scientist of the Year by the ARCS Foundation of San Diego. The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Students) San Diego …
LA JOLLA—Salk Institute researchers, as part of a worldwide initiative to revolutionize scientists’ understanding of the brain, analyzed more than 2 million brain cells from mice to assemble the most …
LA JOLLA—Los profesores del Salk Joseph Ecker, Ronald Evans, Satchidananda Panda, Rusty Gage y Kay Tye, así como el profesor adjunto Jesse Dixon, han sido incluidos en la lista de Investigadores Altamente Citados…
LA JOLLA—The life of the tiny worm called Caenorhabditis elegans consists mostly of looking for food, eating food, and laying eggs. So, when any of these behaviors are disrupted, there’s …
LA JOLLA—Situadas en la intersección del sistema inmunitario humano y el cerebro se encuentran las microglías, células inmunitarias cerebrales especializadas que desempeñan una función crucial en el desarrollo y la enfermedad. Aunque la…
LA JOLLA—Five Salk Institute faculty members have been promoted for their notable, innovative contributions to science. These faculty members have demonstrated leadership in their disciplines, pushing the boundaries of basic …
LA JOLLA—The artificial intelligence (AI) language model ChatGPT has captured the world’s attention in recent months. This trained computer chatbot can generate text, answer questions, provide translations, and learn based …
LA JOLLA—Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it. It appears to be much closer than is proportional to …
LA JOLLA—A pesar de décadas de investigación, la enfermedad de Alzheimer sigue siendo una demencia debilitante y finalmente fatal sin opciones de tratamiento efectivas. Más del 95 por ciento de los casos de enfermedad de Alzheimer no tienen ...
LA JOLLA—Los profesores del Salk Joseph Ecker, Ronald Evans, Rusty Gage, Christian Metallo, Satchidananda Panda, Reuben Shaw y Kay Tye, junto con el profesor asistente Jesse Dixon, han sido nombrados en la lista Highly Cited…
LA JOLLA—Neurons often get most of the credit for keeping our brains sharp and functioning—as well as most of the blame when it comes to brain diseases. But star-shaped cells …
LA JOLLA—Salk Institute Professor Terrence Sejnowski has been awarded the 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize by the Gruber Foundation for his “pioneering contributions to computational and theoretical neuroscience.” He shares the …
LA JOLLA–Whether it’s making rash decisions or feeling grumpy, hunger can make us think and act differently—“hangry,” even. But little …
LA JOLLA—How does an animal make decisions? Scientists have spent decades trying to answer this question by focusing on the cells and connections of the brain that might be involved. …
LA JOLLA—Salk scientists have engineered mammalian cells to be activated using ultrasound. The method, which the team used to activate human cells in a dish and brain cells inside living …
LA JOLLA—It sounds like a party trick: scientists can now look at the brain activity of a tiny worm and tell you which chemical the animal smelled a few seconds …
LA JOLLA—Los profesores del Salk Joanne Chory, Joseph Ecker, Rusty Gage, Satchidananda Panda, Reuben Shaw y Kay Tye han sido incluidos en la lista de Investigadores Altamente Citados de Clarivate. La lista identifica a los investigadores que...
LA JOLLA—Salk Professor Tatyana Sharpee has won the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s (ASBMB) 2022 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences. The award is given to a scientist with …
LA JOLLA—Brain cells called astrocytes play a key role in helping neurons develop and function properly, but there’s still a lot scientists don’t understand about how astrocytes perform these important …
LA JOLLA—When looking at a complex landscape, the eye needs to focus in on important details without losing the big picture—a charging lion in a jungle, for example. Now, a …
La JOLLA. A pesar de la prevalencia de la enfermedad de Alzheimer, todavía no existen tratamientos, en parte porque ha sido difícil estudiar cómo se desarrolla la enfermedad. Ahora, científicos del Salk Institute…
LA JOLLA—Salk Associate Professor Sreekanth Chalasani has won the 2021 National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Gallagher Mentor Award. The announcement was made at the 2021 NPA Annual Conference, which took place …
LA JOLLA—Las neuronas carecen de la capacidad de replicar su ADN, por lo que trabajan constantemente para reparar el daño en su genoma. Ahora, un nuevo estudio de científicos del Salk revela que estas reparaciones...
LA JOLLA—Professors Satchin Panda and Tatyana Sharpee have both been recognized for their contributions and dedication to advancing science through research by being named to endowed chairs at the Salk …
LA JOLLA—Mientras atravesamos una pandemia viral global, nuestra apreciación por la salud y la inmunidad nunca ha sido mayor. Ahora, gracias a un generoso donativo de la Fundación NOMIS, la NOMIS del Salk…
LA JOLLA—Un equipo colaborativo de científicos de Salk dirigido por el profesor John Reynolds recibirá $1.2 millones durante cuatro años como parte de una subvención de red del Larry L. Hillblom…
LA JOLLA—El litio es considerado el estándar de oro para tratar el trastorno bipolar (TB), pero casi el 70 por ciento de las personas con TB no responden a él. Esto las deja en riesgo de...
LA JOLLA—If you’ve ever forgotten something mere seconds after it was at the forefront of your mind—the name of a dish you were about to order at a restaurant, for …
LA JOLLA—Hacer que las computadoras “piensen” como los humanos es el santo grial de la inteligencia artificial, pero los cerebros humanos resultan ser difíciles de imitar. El cerebro humano es un…
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