Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer’s Model
 
           
         
         
    The content and structure of her psychology classes promote belonging among all students Almaz Mesghina has received the 2025 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity. Mesghina will be honored at a reception later this winter. Given annually by...
 
    An interdisciplinary collaboration between Northwestern University and Georgia Tech has created a novel high-performance organic electrochemical neuron that responds within the frequency range of human neurons. The researchers also built a complete perception system by designing other organic materials and...
 
    Children as young as six months can flexibly recruit non-language sounds and bend them to their communicative needs A new study by developmental scientists at Northwestern University provides new insight into a hallmark of human communication: our flexibility to use nonlinguistic...
 
    Microbes supporting the production of more metabolic energy could be key to the evolution of large brains Brain tissue is among the most energetically costly in the body. As a result, larger-brained mammals require more energy to support brain growth and...
 
    Scientists at Northwestern and Case Western Reserve universities have developed the first polymer-based therapeutic for Huntington’s disease, an incurable, debilitating illness that causes nerve cells to break down in the brain. Patients with Huntington’s disease have a genetic mutation that triggers...
 
    If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for self-improvement and better health, so, too, has interest in lucid dreaming, which early evidence has...
 
    Focus is on molecular biology and role of proteins in disease and life span Northwestern University has been awarded $32.4 million over five years from the Hevolution Foundation to study proteostasis — the processes by which cells maintain protein health for...
 
    New finding appears to be universal across insects, mammals and humans When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called “criticality,” this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning...
 
    Experts have long pointed out the need for white parents to have conversations that directly address racism with their children to reduce racial bias. But many parents fail to have these crucial discussions. Psychology researchers at Northwestern University have published the...
 
    Battling Alzheimer’s disease has become William Klein’s life work – even if he never saw it coming. A progressive disease impacting memory, thinking, behavior, and other mental functions, Alzheimer’s affects an estimated 6.7 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, and...