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We discovered that approximately one fifth of people with the deadly brain tumour glioblastoma show age-related genetic changes in their blood cells called ‘clonal hematopoiesis’, or CHIP.

The International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank (ISCIB) is a multi-user biorepository with the mission of accelerating therapeutic development in traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) through improved biological understanding of human injury, and the vision of serving as a global research resource where human SCI biospecimens are shared with researchers around the world.

In Canada, about 1.1 million people care for family members with dementia, providing support that saves the healthcare system billions each year.

“Vascular pathology, such as loss of neurovascular coupling and disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), has been documented in Huntington’s disease (HD).

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive brain tumour in adults.

A hallmark and the earliest event taking place in ALS is the denervation of neuromuscular junctions (NMJs), which results in muscle weakness and paralysis.

There is an urgent need for research that deepens our understanding of human brain function and uses this knowledge to accelerate therapeutic breakthroughs related to brain dysfunction.

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and deadly adult brain cancer.

Optogenetics, defined as a technique where light-sensitive genes are introduced into brain cells to control their activity with light, allows researchers to precisely control nerve cell communication thereby, transforming brain research.

Each year, over 312 million patients undergo surgery.