Neuromics

04/27/2026

Whole-Brain Mapping 🧠 This image captures the vasculature and neural wiring of Drosophila, traced in vivid colors to reveal how individual pathways branch, intersect, and organize into a complete functional network. What looks like abstract art is actually a full biological system, one that processes sensory input, coordinates movement, and encodes behavior in real time.

What makes this powerful isn’t just the beauty, it’s the completeness. With a brain this small, scientists can map nearly every connection, something still out of reach in larger brains. That means we can begin to link structure to function with precision: which circuits drive motion, how signals propagate, and how behavior emerges from wiring.

The Importance:

🧬 Fruit flies share core neural architecture principles with humans
🔍 Whole-brain mapping is possible at single-neuron resolution
⚡ Circuit-level insights help decode behavior and learning
🧠 Foundations for understanding neurodegenerative disease and dysfunction

From a brain smaller than a poppy seed, we’re uncovering rules that scale all the way up to human cognition.

Credit to Nikky Corthout and Miranda Dyson for the great work!

04/24/2026

Teach neuroscience to undergraduates? Check out our "Implementing Open Neuroscience Teaching Tools" workshop!

Immediately following the meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, this workshop will give participants hands-on practice with inquiry-based activities based on real open neuroscience resources.

🗓️ July 19
📍North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
🥪 Lunch provided
⏳ Register by May 1

04/24/2026

BREAKING NEWS - Regeneron receives FDA approval for the first-ever gene therapy for genetic hearing loss

This is huge. Regeneron has just announced the FDA approval for Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha). The first-ever gene therapy for genetic hearing loss.

This Gene Therapy will be offered free of charge in the US.

The approval is based on the Phase 1/2 CHORD trial where:

80% of patients achieved meaningful hearing improvement
70% showed objective hearing responses
42% reached normal hearing levels
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04/21/2026

🧠Parkinson's disease has more active drug candidates than almost any neurological condition on earth. In just one system — protein misfolding — 6 different attack classes are being tested in humans right now.
✅Antibodies clearing toxic protein (Phase 2 and Phase 3)
✅Vaccines train your immune system to do it (Phase 1 and Phase 2)
✅Pills blocking the clumping at the source
✅Gene silencing cuts production before the protein is even made, and Gene therapy aiming for a one-shot, lifelong fix
✅A repurposed cough medicine in Phase 3.
🔗https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2025-06-16
🔗 https://www.apdaparkinson.org/article/new-pd-treatments-clinical-trial-pipeline/
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04/20/2026

Interesting hypothesis.
Muscle is burned-Yes,
While the body can break down protein (including muscle) for energy, a primary goal of ketosis is to provide an alternative fuel (ketones) to spare muscle tissue. During Ketosis, your breath smells like nail polish remover.
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I teach medical students that ketones are backup fuel for the brain. New research says they do something far more powerful.

Scientists found that beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) -- the primary ketone your body makes during fasting or keto -- directly restores Tau protein balance in neurons and REDUCES the toxic aggregation driving Alzheimer's disease.

The key discovery: BHB does this INDEPENDENTLY of being burned for energy. Even a ketolysis-resistant form of BHB produced the same neuroprotective benefits.

This means fasting, ketogenic diets, and exercise may protect the brain through a mechanism we never knew existed -- not just fuel switching, but direct protein quality control.

Across cell, tissue, and animal models, BHB enhanced neuronal Tau proteostasis and reduced Tau secretion.

This is why I wrote "Lies I Taught in Medical School" -- we taught ketones were just emergency fuel. They are molecular medicine.

Full breakdown coming on the Health Longevity Secrets podcast.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12889508/
Study: bioRxiv/PMC (2026), Buck Institute / UCSD

04/18/2026

***Hope for Colorectal Cancer Patients***
Our researchers in Edinburgh are finding ways to trick bowel cancer cells into revealing themselves to the body’s defences.
Most bowel cancers are “immune-cold,” meaning they can evade the immune system, even when it’s boosted by immunotherapies.
The team wants to change that by disrupting cancer cells’ internal messaging system, which tells them to grow too much and eventually form into tumors. In early lab tests, this approach tricked bowel cancer cells into looking and acting in ways the immune system could recognize and stop.
Now, with £1.5m in funding, the team will investigate ways of using this technique to help people with bowel cancer.
Ultimately, their work could turn the messages that bowel cancers use to grow into tripwires that make them easier to stop.

04/18/2026

Thank you, Cancer Research UK, for this important post. Hope for patients. Colorectal Cancer Alliance

Our researchers in Edinburgh are finding ways to trick bowel cancer cells into revealing themselves to the body’s defences.

Most bowel cancers are “immune-cold”, which means they can disguise or protect themselves from the immune system, even when it’s powered up by immunotherapies.

The team want to change that by disrupting cancer cells’ internal messaging system, which tells them to grow too much and eventually form into tumours. In early lab tests, this approach tricked bowel cancer cells into looking and acting in ways the immune system could recognise and stop.

Now, with £1.5m in funding, the team will investigate ways of using this technique to help people with bowel cancer.

Ultimately, their work could turn the messages that bowel cancers use to grow into tripwires that make them easier to stop.

04/16/2026

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04/16/2026

Thank you, Scenceblog,com
Alzheimer's Drugs Clear the Plaques but Leave Patients No Better Off https://tinyurl.com/AD-Scienceblog Mmm. They apparently don't shut down inflammatory response cycling. There has been a lot invested in this class of drugs. I wish the results were more encouraging,
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The brain scans look unambiguous. After 18 months of treatment, the amyloid plaques that riddle the brains of early Alzheimer’s patients are visibly reduced, sometimes dramatically so. The drug is doing exactly what it was designed to do: hunting down those sticky protein deposits and clearing the...

04/15/2026

📰 BREAKING NEWS courtesy of Neuromics friend Harshi Peiris

🧠 A new drug just entered a pivotal Phase 2/3 trial for Parkinson's disease — and it works completely differently than anything tried before.
No dopamine.
No neurons.
It targets the IMMUNE SYSTEM.
Source: Biohaven Official Press Release — May 29, 2025
https://www.biohaven.com Neuroscience News and Research
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04/14/2026

🧠Fascinating insights on SCI courtesy of Neuromics friends ScienceBlog.com
✅ "Your Muscles Can Walk After a Spinal Cord Injury, but the Signals Driving Them Tell a Different Story-Your Muscles Can Walk After a Spinal Cord Injury, but the Signals Driving Them Tell a Different Story",
https://tinyurl.com/SCI-Insights

A single calf muscle contains hundreds of tiny nerve-to-muscle connections, each one firing in precise sequence to produce something as mundane as

04/12/2026

🧠 In-vivo-like human brain models turbo-charge basic research and the discovery of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Neuromics Human Primary and iPCS-Derived cells are consistently used to construct these models.
✅ Image Neuromics" Human Astrocytes and Human Brain Endothelial Microvascular Cells used to manufacture mini-brain-related publication-https://tinyurl.com/Hu-Brain-Organoid-Pub
We offer a wide range of cells. They are consistently used by Biopharmas, Academic, and Government Labs worldwide. Kathleen Stark, Lori Johnson, Scientist.com, Neuroscience News ,
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