neuroscience Archives

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Nov 2017

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A New Precision Medicine Initiative in Parkinson’s Disease… and Perhaps Other Neurologic Conditions

Cancer was once considered a single disease, but today we are well aware of the many different forms this medical scourge can take, and the many molecular events that can lead to and drive unwanted cell growth. Now, a new partnership between the Michael J. Fox Foundation and 23andMe aims to explore whether Parkinson’s disease...

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Mar 2017

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Alzheimer’s Disease Part Three: Meeting 2025 Goals

In early 2011, the National Alzheimer’s Project was formed — a strategic plan aimed at addressing the looming health care crisis posed by the disease and the aging population. Its aim: to coordinate research efforts across the U.S. federal government with the goal of preventing or effectively treating Alzheimer’s Disease by 2025. Since then,...

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Oct 2016

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds $3 Billion Science Effort to Cure or Manage All Diseases by 2100

On September 21, Facebook CEO and billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, and his pediatrician wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced a new, privately funded big science effort. The couple pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to “cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children’s lifetime.” The couple has pledged to donate over $3 billion...

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Sep 2016

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Mapping the Brain: Dawn of a New Era for Neuroscience Research?

On July 20, a team of neuroscience researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and other centers published a precise new brain map in Nature — an outcome of the White House BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative, first announced in 2013. The new map draws in part on the brain’s internal...