Health & Medicine
Why is sleep so important? Your brain depends on it
January 26, 2026
Sleep does more than restore energy—it activates the brain’s waste-clearing system, protecting long-term brain health.
Maiken Nedergaard
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Maiken Nedergaard elected to the National Academy of Inventors
December 11, 2025
The honor recognizes Nedergaard’s groundbreaking research over the past decade, which has fundamentally reshaped basic neuroscience.
Science & Technology
Cleaning up the aging brain
August 15, 2024
Rochester scientists are restoring the brain’s trash disposal system with a drug currently used to induce labor.
Health & Medicine
Blood pressure meds clear the way for brain relief after trauma
November 15, 2023
Health & Medicine
AI helps show how the brain’s fluids flow
June 13, 2023
A new, AI-based technique for measuring fluid flow in the brain could lead to treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Science & Technology
At age 80, John Thomas writes new chapter in an illustrious career
January 31, 2022
The Rochester professor emeritus and new American Astronomical Society fellow now explores the brain’s waste disposal system.
Science & Technology
Study suggests how high blood pressure might contribute to Alzheimer’s
January 25, 2019
New Rochester research may help explain the connection between high blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease, and it's all to do with how the brain pumps away waste.