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The company is designing products based on “electric medicine,” an approach that redirects brain waves through non-invasive stimulation — using sound, light, touch, and electrical pulses.
Brigham and MIT researchers uncovered never-before-seen details in human brain tissue with new, inexpensive microscopy technology.
Using a microscopy technique known as expansion-mediated protein decrowding, researchers imaged human brain tissue in greater detail than ever before, revealing cells and structures that were not previously visible. They discovered some brain tumors called gliomas contain many more putative aggressive tumor cells than expected.
Studying the effects of neurodegenerative diseases across the brain, MIT Professor Li-Huei Tsai pioneers a noninvasive therapy that shows high promise in early clinical studies.
In 2023, several breakthroughs have shaken the academic community. Freezing entire organs to sub-zero temperatures for future transplantation is now a reality.