Since its launch in 2013, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative has doled out about $1.3 billion in grants to develop tools that map and manipulate the brain.
2019 was an exciting year for neuroscience discovery! Last month, several high-profile scientific magazines, journals, and mainstream news outlets featured articles looking back at the top scientific...
NIH’s BRAIN Update Blog has posted its latest publication roundup, highlighting a few recent BRAIN Initiative-funded research papers.
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of John J. Ngai, Ph.D., as director of the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative.
Ethicists and biologists seek to head off challenges raised by tissue “organoids” as they become increasingly similar to human brains.
Today, the American Brain Foundation announced that NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group member, Dr. Frances Jensen, has joined its board of directors.
neuroscientists have identified the part of the mammalian brain that stores information essential to such value-based decision making.
BRAIN Initiative scientist Karel Svoboda aims to understand how neural circuits give rise to sustained activity, the neural correlate of short-term memory.
The IEEE Brain Neuroethics Subcommittee is leading an effort to develop guidelines to address ethical, legal, and social concerns for the research and use of neurotechnologies.
Working together for a common goal propels neuroscience research.
As computational and systems biologist Aviv Regev, PhD, maps the trillions of cells that comprise the human body for the Human Cell Atlas
