Barack Obama announced his BRAIN Initiative on 2 April. Ever since, neuroscientists have been scrambling to work out what it actually is.

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Banks began wondering if the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, behaved similarly to gp120. He and his team, which studies the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer's, obesity ...

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A bold scheme to map the entire human brain has become the mission of many scientists from a host of different fields. Paul Smaglik tracks the interdisciplinary career implications.

The S1 protein likely causes the brain to release inflammatory products causing a storm in the brain, researchers said. Source: Alice Gray William A. Banks has been studying HIV for years. He'd ...