<p>The sea lamprey, a 500-million-year-old animal with a sharp-toothed suction cup for a mouth, is the thing of nightmares. A new study from the <a href="https://www.stowers.org/" target=" blank">Stowers Institute for Medical Research</a> discovered that the hindbrain—the part of the brain controlling vital functions like blood pressure and heart rate—of both sea lampreys and humans is built using an extraordinarily similar molecular and genetic toolkit.</p>
/PRNewswire/ The sea lamprey, a 500-million-year-old animal with a sharp-toothed suction cup for a mouth, is the thing of nightmares. A new study from the.
<p>The sea lamprey, a 500-million-year-old animal with a sharp-toothed suction cup for a mouth, is the thing of nightmares. A new study from the <a href="https://www.stowers.org/" target=" blank">Stowers Institute for Medical Research</a> discovered that the hindbrain—the part of the brain controlling vital functions like blood pressure and heart rate—of both sea lampreys and humans is built using an extraordinarily similar molecular and genetic toolkit.</p>
/PRNewswire/ The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced the awardees of their second cycle of Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards, part of the.
<p>Scientific Director <a href="https://www.stowers.org/people/kausik-si">Kausik Si, Ph.D.,</a> from the <a href="http://stowers.org/">Stowers Institute for Medical Research</a> will receive an award for the project titled, “Tuning memory by altering amyloids,” which will be conducted alongside Investigator <a href="https://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/163194/lukasz-joachimiak.html">Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D.,</a> from the <a href="https://utsouthwestern.edu/">University of Texas Southwestern.</a></p>
<p>Following the success of the first cycle, the NDCN expanded the research scope beyond neurodegenerative disease, seeking proposals covering broader neuroscience biology. While extensive research has focused on pathologic amyloids behind devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s, Si and Joachimiak are tackling a fundamentally different question: Can f