MIT researchers shared their latest work on aging brain health at a symposium held on September 25.

MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative organised the event, covering Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.

Director Li-Huei Tsai said the initiative brings together researchers from a diverse array of fields.

One team built an AI model, FINGERS-7B, to match people with the Alzheimer’s prevention steps likely to work for them.

It was trained on 8 trillion tokens from clinical trials, lifestyle histories and genomic and protein data.

Alan Jasanoff presented molecular MRI probes for studying aging and neural activity.

Laura Kiessling described tools to study glycans, sugar chains on brain cell membranes.

Ritu Raman showed bioengineered nerve-muscle models for ALS, and Earl Miller discussed anaesthesia and the aging brain.

No timeline for turning the work into clinical care was disclosed.

Read the full article for more details on MIT’s aging brain research.