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From immune memory in the brain to exercise‑strengthened cells, student researchers explore how science could help us age with more resilience.

Josh Huang and senior research associate and first author Xu An found an area of the cerebral cortex that helps mice coordinate precise movements of their hands and mouth while handling and eating food.

Neurons formed through two different “birth routes” in a mouse embryo grow into adult neurons with noticeably different structures and functions.

In a new study, a team of Duke researchers led by Neurobiology training faculty member Bradley Goldstein and including Neurobiology alum Tiffany Ko show that a quick, outpatient nasal swab can pick up early biological changes linked to Alzheimer’s, even before thinking and memory problems appear.

Duke University School of Medicine scientists have discovered a hidden brain circuit that helps explain how we learn from experience.

Debra Silver, PhD, wants to know what makes a human brain human and why early development sometimes goes off-track.

The initiative will support recruitment of faculty with expertise at the intersection of AI and biology to be embedded in basic science departments.  It will also provide shared computational resources, a seminar series, coding bootcamps, and access to cutting-edge laboratory technologies.

In older adults, postoperative delirium—characterized by confusion, inattention, and agitation—can occur following surgical procedures, and some individuals fail to fully recover.

A team led by Neurobiology's Josh Huang and postdoc first-author Yi Li studied how different parts of the mouse brain work together to guide a natural action where the animal reaches out and

Second year graduate student Jillian Saunders (Eroglu Lab) and postdoc Julia Dziabis (Scott-Hewitt Lab) have been selected to receive 2026 Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Germinator Awards