The Record

Helping schools with suicide prevention

With the goal of preventing youth suicide by helping schools set up a student support system, the Brown School hosted the Hope Policy Academy June 6.

The fractal brain, from a single neuron’s perspective

Arts & Sciences physicists studying the brain have shown how measuring signals from a single neuron may be as good as capturing information from many neurons at once using big, expensive arrays of electrodes.

Aging delayed in older mice

School of Medicine researchers have shown that supplementing older mice with an enzyme from the blood of younger mice extends life spans in the older ones.

Single-celled parasites caught in the act

The single-celled parasite Leishmania can reproduce sexually, according to a new study from the School of Medicine and the NIH. The finding could lead to improved treatment for deadly infections.