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Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
David Karl and Ed DeLong, directors of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology, describe the importance of understanding the organisms at the base of the marine … -
The American Physical Society has awarded its 2020 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics to Antoine Georges. He shares the prize with Gabriel Kotliar of Rutgers University. Georges … -
Yael Niv explores how the brain represents the structure of the world — and how it organizes these representations so that we can most effectively learn from past experiences … -
A high schooler and his robotics teammates create a lunar rover replica for a small town Fourth of July parade -
When it comes to data sharing, neuroscience lags behind many other fields. But a growing number of large-scale projects are inspiring new efforts to develop workable tools. -
A multilab collaboration at the University of Washington is developing ways to compare data from humans and monkeys. -
Members of the multi-lab BrainCogs collaboration are using DataJoint to more easily access each other’s data. -
Driven by the growing number of large-scale collaborations, researchers are developing new ways to standardize both data and analysis pipelines. -
When it comes to data sharing, neuroscience lags behind many other fields. But a growing number of large-scale projects are inspiring new efforts to develop workable tools. -
Policy changes in various countries have put scientists and their collaborative nature under scrutiny, threatening academic freedom and student enrollment. -
A number of SFARI Investigators, collaborators and Simons Foundation scientists will present their latest research findings related to the genomic and transcriptomic architecture of autism spectrum disorder and … -
SFARI is pleased to announce that is intends to fund 12 grants in response to the Summer 2019 Pilot Award request for applications. -
David Ginty and colleagues have identified mechanisms through which peripheral loss of ASD-associated genes affect behaviors in mice and identify a potential peripherally restricted therapy to treat … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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Matthew Goodwin, Matthew Siegel and colleagues found that data from a wearable biosensor can be used to accurately predict aggressive behavior up to one minute before it occurs. -
Alessandro Gozzi and colleagues found that Shank3-deficient mice have disrupted frontocortical functional connectivity, which is associated with impaired communication and social behaviors. -
Traveling to the annual meeting in Chicago? Check out these talks. -
SFARI Investigators will give a number of presentations at Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL (October 19–23). -
Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old ‘no-hair theory’ of black hole properties. -
The mathematician is recognized for his many contributions, including the proof of the ‘magic wand theorem’ -
Findings from the first SPARK genetics study have now been published. The study, which analyzed whole-exome and genome-wide genotyping data from 457 autism families, confirmed known … -
Congestion causes the mass of tubes and motors that form chromosome-dividing spindles to move at full speed instead of slowing to a crawl, new research reveals. -
New Simons Searchlight data were recently added to SFARI Base. This data release included phenotypic data from individuals with 16p11.2 copy number variants (CNVs), 1q21.1 CNVs … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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New technologies for tracking hundreds of neurons simultaneously provide new ground for testing decades-old theories, explains the SCGB’s Ila Fiete of MIT. -
The Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP) has been recently rebranded as Simons Searchlight. The new name aims to better reflect the program’s mission to build … -
Microbiologist Sally Warring aims to uncover the millions of tiny organisms lurking just beneath the surface of the city’s waters. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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… broken new ground on the connections between theoretical models of black holes and the real-world many-body systems, such as the quark-gluon plasma produced at … -
Following a successful first year, the partnership has expanded to provide increased funding for emerging voices in science storytelling -
Three new methods to identify hidden structure in neural activity. -
On April 18, 2019, SFARI brought together autism specialists and child development experts to explore the short-lived yet critical period of infancy. Understanding how cognition, motor skills … -
Scientists observe unexplained behavior in the GD-1 stellar stream, begin search for clumps of dark matter in the Milky Way. -
New research shows that a population of astrocytes in fish keeps track of failed attempts to swim and signals when to give up. -
Kevin Bender, Stephan Sanders and colleagues show that there is an unexpectedly critical role for the autism risk gene Scn2a, which encodes the sodium channel NaV1.2, in … -
Paul Sternberg and colleagues establish an initial pipeline in C. elegans to screen autism-associated missense mutations for functional effects. -
Susan Bookheimer and colleagues show that the degree of sensory overresponsivity in individuals with autism may be driven by distinct patterns of connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and … -
The 2018 Nevanlinna Prize winner describes his interest in economics, statistics, machine learning and the application of game theory in raising children. -
SFARI Investigator Dan Feldman discusses the E-I ratio hypothesis in autism and his lab’s recent studies that aimed to test it. -
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Thomas Maynard and colleagues show that a mouse model of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome has fewer long-distance cortico-cortical connections, which is caused in … -
Two studies from Brigitta Monz, Richard Houghton and colleagues provide examples of the effectiveness of SPARK’s research match program to rapidly recruit thousands of individuals for the … -
Peter Kind and colleagues show that brief treatment with lovastatin results in sustained correction of physiological and behavioral deficits in a rat model of fragile X syndrome. -
Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing of postmortem cortical tissue from individuals with ASD, Arnold Kriegstein and colleagues identify upper-layer excitatory neurons and microglia as key cell types … -
Maarten de Hoop of Rice University explores the foundations of seismic waves to better understand what’s going on inside our planet. -
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background ‘hum’ of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be made and whether … -
New data were recently added to SFARI Gene. This data release included the addition of new genes and copy number variant loci associated with autism. New mouse and … -
Timothy Yu and colleagues analyzed exome sequencing data to estimate that recessive mutations contribute to approximately 5 percent of all cases of autism, including 10 percent of females.