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The Brain Prize is the world’s largest prize for brain research. It is awarded each year by the Lundbeck Foundation. Learn more https://brainprize.org/
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@brainprize.bsky.social@brainprize.bsky.social → @brainprize.orgDevelopmental biologist Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard shared the 1995 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development." First/only female German national to win a Nobel in the sciences. Born #OTD in 1942. #WomenInSTEM
Show PostTask-specific theta enhancement and domain-general alpha/beta suppression as oscillatory signatures of cognitive flexibility www.nature.com/articles/s44... #neuroscience
Show PostGiven that Epstein-Barr virus predisposes some people to #ME/CFS, #LongCOVID, and Multiple Sclerosis (and we don't know what else,) a vaccine is badly needed. This is good news for young people who haven't yet contracted EBV. Moderna also has a mRNA candidate. 💉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Show Post“The end of acute infection is not necessarily the end of the disease”. I very much appreciate this comment in Nature highlighting the role of infectious disease in the development or exacerbation of chronic disease. Vaccines can prevent chronic diseases, which is often overlooked.
Show PostSymposium highlights MIT’s wide range of innovations for aging brain health news.mit.edu/2026/symposi... #neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social
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