A five-year grant from the National Eye Institute will help investigate the retina's light-sensing structures and develop treatments for incurable retinal diseases leading to blindness. The research focuses on the photoreceptor outer segment, a process where daily new membranes are added to support vision.
Upstate Medical University has been awarded $1.5 million to create an advanced research center for brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and stroke, as part of the SUNY Brain Institute. The center will integrate biospecimens, induced pluripotent stem cells, and organoid models to support human-centered neuroscience research.
Researchers at Upstate Medical University identified a crucial mechanism for determining myelin length, which varies throughout the nervous system and influences nerve signal speed. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, provide new insight into how the brain and spinal cord organize nervous system wiring.
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains difficult to treat with immunotherapy due to its ability to evade the immune system. The study aims to understand how immune cells recognize leukemia cells without relying on HLA, with the goal of developing HLA-independent immunotherapies.
A new study found that aging significantly limits the ability of support cells in the retina to be reprogrammed into new neurons, a discovery that has important implications for the future of regenerative medicine. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also found that inflammation and decreased ce...
A new scoring system developed by researchers at Upstate Medical University can help identify patients at high risk of intramyocardial hemorrhage after a heart attack, guiding treatment and monitoring. The system uses explainable artificial intelligence to predict patient risk in real-time, allowing doctors to make informed decisions.