Orr laboratory
@orrlaboratory.bsky.social
Studying dementia, astrocytes, neurotherapeutics. Pursuing audacious team-based neuroscience and helping the next generation achieve their highest potential. Lab website: https://www.orrlaboratory.com/
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Update: a Targetome commentary by Zhao, Agarwal & Bai discusses our Cell paper as part of a broader paradigm of glia–glia coordination—linking microglia–astrocyte signaling in synaptic pruning to cooperative glial mechanisms in processes such as myelination.
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Glial Wnt dialogue controls synapses
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December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Update: a Targetome commentary by Zhao, Agarwal & Bai discusses our Cell paper as part of a broader paradigm of glia–glia coordination—linking microglia–astrocyte signaling in synaptic pruning to cooperative glial mechanisms in processes such as myelination.
www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...
www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...
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Study Pinpoints Source of Free Radicals in the Brain that May Fuel Dementia
Researchers have discovered that free radicals generated at a specific site in non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes, may promote dementia, according to a Weill Cornell Medicine study.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Congratulations to the first author Daniel Barnett, a student in the @weillcornell.bsky.social Neuroscience Graduate program, and big thanks to our superb collaborators @liganlab.bsky.social @wjnyc.bsky.social, Haopeng Xiao, and Ed Chouchani🙏🙌
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congratulations to the first author Daniel Barnett, a student in the @weillcornell.bsky.social Neuroscience Graduate program, and big thanks to our superb collaborators @liganlab.bsky.social @wjnyc.bsky.social, Haopeng Xiao, and Ed Chouchani🙏🙌