“I think it’s a real mistake to forget where the pipeline for all this begins.”
John Diffley reflects on the importance of basic research, his mission to decode DNA replication and recreate it in the lab, and the scientific optimism of the 1960s that helped shape it.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
Very excited to host today's #MedicineAtTheCrick event @crick.ac.uk - Interfacing the brain: from Neurons to Networks.
Amazing line-up and looking forward to great talks and discussions. #BCI
Angelique Paulk
Kai Miller
David Brandman
Harith Akram
Mariska Vansteensel
The Francis Crick Institute
Andreas Schaefer
The project will be co-led by @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social at the Crick and Chris Jacobsen at Northwestern University, working with @esrf.fr . It is part of the NIH’s BRAIN CONNECTS programme to map neural connections in humans and animals.
“We’re hoping doors will open for researchers to ask questions about how connections are made in the brain in mice and maybe, one day, humans.” - @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social
Read about the new NIH-funded program to map brain circuitry using X-rays: www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
Neuroscientist Andreas Schaefer is spearheading a new project to capture the intricacies of the mouse brain using X-rays, bringing researchers closer to a complete map of its neural connections.
www.crick.ac.uk
This work is the product of an outstanding multidisciplinary team operating across multiple countries.
Special congrats to Safe Khan, lead author of the study. And congrats to all authors and supporting institutions!
doi.org/10.1107/S160...
@safekhan.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social
X-ray phase contrast tomography can efficiently image brain tissue at subcellular resolution. Critical point drying allows a gentle replacement of interstitial material by air, enhancing X-ray phase c...
Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...
Many thanks and congrats to all who participated in this work esp. our collaborators (Tatsuya Tsukahara, @neuroboz.bsky.social , @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social , and Alex Fleishmann)!
