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Our Favorite Neuroscience Stories of 2021
From a Nobel prize and photosynthesis-powered brains to neurodegeneration research and controversy over a new Alzheimer’s drug, a look back at some of the biggest brain-related developments of the year.
Our Favorite Neuroscience Stories of 2021
Our Favorite Neuroscience Stories of 2021

From a Nobel prize and photosynthesis-powered brains to neurodegeneration research and controversy over a new Alzheimer’s drug, a look back at some of the biggest brain-related developments of the year.

From a Nobel prize and photosynthesis-powered brains to neurodegeneration research and controversy over a new Alzheimer’s drug, a look back at some of the biggest brain-related developments of the year.

Nobel Prize, neuroscience

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Mechanisms of Chili’s Heat, Menthol’s Cool Garner Nobel
Chloe Tenn | Oct 4, 2021 | 4 min read
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on the ion channels involved in perceiving heat, cold, pain, and touch.
Neuropharmacologist Arvid Carlsson Dies at 95
Sukanya Charuchandra | Jul 2, 2018 | 1 min read
The Nobel laureate’s discoveries led to a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
Giants of Circadian Biology Win Nobel Prize
Catherine Offord | Oct 2, 2017 | 4 min read
The award in Physiology or Medicine goes to chronobiologists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young.
Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobelists
Bob Grant | Sep 24, 2014 | 2 min read
Using citation statistics, the firm forecasts which researchers are likely to take home science’s top honors this year.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | May 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Madness and Memory, Promoting the Planck Club, The Carnivore Way, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Nobel Laureate Dies
Abby Olena, PhD | Sep 26, 2013 | 2 min read
David Hubel, who helped revolutionize the understanding of visual information processing, has passed away at age 87.
Interview: Speaking of Memory
Edyta Zielinska | Oct 1, 2011 | 4 min read
Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
Kandel on Neuroscience
Edyta Zielinska | Oct 1, 2011 | 1 min read
Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the nervous system, chats about the ever-changing field of neuroscience, funding, his students, and what he hopes science will accomplish.
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