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SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund nine grants in response to the 2019 Research Award request for applications. -
New research suggests that under certain conditions, localizing neural activity to specific cells is unnecessary. -
Scientists find evidence for a surprising power law in the brain, which may help us see both smaller details and the big picture. -
The new model can envision universes with unique parameters, such as extra dark matter, even without receiving training data in which those parameters varied. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
Best known for her work leading to image compression and data processing techniques, Daubechies proposed the idea of an institute dedicated to data analysis in 2012. -
Many of today’s image compression methods and other data-processing techniques owe their existence to work by Ingrid Daubechies, who continues to do innovative research while building … -
Olga Troyanskaya, Robert Darnell and colleagues applied deep-learning methods to whole-genome sequencing data from SSC families and identified a clear enrichment for de novo noncoding variation … -
Originally inspired by the brain, artificial neural networks have revolutionized modern computing. Now neuroscientists are turning these techniques back on the brain. -
… range from the discovery of new phases of matter to revolutionary quantum technologies to tabletop models for elementary particles and potentially even quantum gravity. -
… on off-shore platforms. Although the wave kinetic equation has been widely used, its range of applicability has never been put on a rigorous mathematical foundation. Its … -
… realize new states of matter with tailored topological protected properties. This is a fascinating field with a bright future that will trigger further experimental and theoretical works … -
James Ellis and colleagues used a sparse co-culture system for iPSC-derived cortical neurons to assess neuronal connectivity, demonstrating increased connectivity in SHANK2-mediated ASD. -
Mark Zylka and colleagues generated single-cell RNA-seq data from wild-type mouse cortex during early development and demonstrated how such a resource can be used to … -
Our new feature-length documentary about gene editing continues in festivals ahead of a general release later this year. -
On June 14, 2019, Alistair Ward and Chase Miller will introduce SFARI Viewer and show how this online platform can be used to visualize and analyze genomic and … -
SFARI held its fourteenth science meeting September 30–October 2, 2018. SFARI investigators, collaborators and foundation staff came together to discuss recent findings in autism genetics, molecular and … -
More than 65,000 people with autism are now enrolled in SPARK, making it the largest autism research study to date. Many of these individuals and their families … -
The neurodevelopmental condition can result from mutations in the noncoding regions of the human genome, new research demonstrates for the first time. -
Two new papers highlight how researchers are using artificial neural networks to both better understand and control the visual system. -
SFARI Investigator Seth Shipman discusses his lab’s research on the molecular and cellular mechanisms shaping brain development and how the Bridge to Independence Award is helping him … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan of New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is a probabilist who has worked on different aspects of stochastic processes. A major … -
Cryptography is usually associated with keeping data hidden. But it also means enabling computation with encrypted information and cooperation without trust, among other issues, says theoretical computer scientist … -
A new mathematical framework aims to decipher how the structure of a neural network shapes the activity patterns it creates. -
Are two pups playing or fighting? The answer is not always clear, but new automated methods can characterize social interactions in a more quantifiable way than ever before. -
The Simons Foundation has named nine scientists as 2019 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The three-year awards are intended to help launch … -
New data were recently added to SFARI Gene. This data release included updated gene scores for candidate autism risk genes, as well as the addition of new genes … -
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SFARI staff and collaborators will be presenting a number of posters about SFARI projects and resources at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2019 Annual Meeting in … -
SFARI Investigators and SFARI science staff will be giving a number of oral presentations at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2019 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada … -
Locations linked to reward get special representations in the brain, new research suggests. -
Four current and former SFARI Investigators are among the more than 200 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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Simplifications can provide deep insights to complex systems like black holes, explains Alexei Kitaev of the California Institute of Technology -
Eleven researchers supported by the Simons Foundation are among the latest batch of prominent leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy and public affairs, elected as fellows … -
The new findings offer potential avenues for developing therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. -
Groups of neurons may use mathematically derived subspaces to selectively route information to other parts of the brain. -
… He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson … -
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that on April 1, Euan Robertson joined its leadership team as the foundation’s first chief operating officer (COO). As COO … -
SFARI announces that it has awarded six grants in response to the Genomic Analysis for Autism Risk Variants in SPARK request for applications. These grants will help to … -
On September 25, 2018, SFARI convened a workshop with the aims of discussing current research on sensory processing in autism and bringing together investigators that conduct animal- and … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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Kyle Kai-How Farh and Stephan Sanders developed a deep-learning method to predict risk mutations that affect mRNA splicing and contribute substantially to neurodevelopmental disorders. -
Vinod Menon and colleagues report that a difference in the activation of a voice-processing network comprising reward and salience detection systems is a distinguishing feature of autism. -
SFARI is pleased to announce that it has selected seven new clinical sites as a result of the 2019 SPARK Clinical Site Network request for applications. These sites …