Center for Brain Science

November 1, 2007

Nature Features 'Brainbow' Research
This week’s issue of Nature (Vol 450 No. 7166) features neuroscience on the cover in the form of Brainbow, a remarkable new technique that visualizes the track of hundreds of neurons as they wend their way through the brain. [more]
Also featured in Harvard Science.

Picture: T. A. Weissmann

NIH Director's Pioneer Award

Takao Hensch has been awarded special funding by the National Institutes of Health to explore the role of noncoding RNAs in brain development and as a potential treatment for devastating brain disorders in adulthood. [more]

Harvard University Launches Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience

Led by Professors Haim Sompolinsky and Markus Meister, the Swartz Program will operate within the Center for Brain Science at Harvard, benefiting from its broad, interdisciplinary connections to neural, cognitive, and physical sciences.[more]