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10.03.2023New project: Speakeasy
A new Wyss Center - University of Geneva collaboration aims to decode imagined speech directly from the brain using novel implanted electrodes and new algorithms.
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23.02.2023New project: Repairing the spinal cord
Gene therapy to boost rehabilitation success following spinal cord injury.
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15.01.2023New project: STAR - Solutions Through Astrocyte Research
The STAR team is pursuing new strategies, focused on astrocytes, to identify biomarkers and new therapeutic targets to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Expanding our understanding of the brain
Expansion microscopy increases the size of brain samples, allowing intricacies to be visualized, revealing disease mechanisms and accelerating development of therapies for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Completely locked-in man uses brain-computer interface to communicate
The system, developed for people with complete locked-in syndrome, allows communication over periods of months to years, in the home environment. It paves the way for new technologies for people with severe paralysis.
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Revealing 3D anatomy with lightsheet microscopy
Developers around the world are pushing microscope technology to the extremes. Lightsheet microscopes image brain tissue down to individual neurons and offer unprecedented maps of nervous system structure and function.
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