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The Long Term dataset

Next in Stall Catchers we are working on the "Long Term" dataset. With the "Long Term" dataset we are seeking to understand how late into disease development an increase in brain blood flow, due to a decrease in capillary stalling,

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The "Hypertension" dataset is complete! Here's the full report...

Fanfares 🎺 Another datase is complete in Stall Catchers! This time we are looking to find out if high blood pressure affects the rate of stalls in Alzheimer's mice. See the

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Early peek at the #Megathon research result 📈 📊

As you know, as of Monday this week, we completed the first pass of the Megathon dataset analysis, which allows us to take a peek at your answers and, as

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🎥 Lecture: the role of reduced blood flow in Alzheimer's & the Stall Catchers game

Last Friday, Pietro gave a talk at Cornell University alongside our biomedical collaborators Nozomi & Chris. The lecture covers the aspects of the science behind Stall Catchers, i.e. the role of stalls and reduced blood flow in the brain in Alzheimer's, as well

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The time of NOX is over. The time of Tau has come. (Wait what?! 😅)

Here comes the long overdue update on the research YOU are helping to achieve on Stall Catchers ! In short: we have just finished the "NOX" dataset -- the

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Article in "Nature Neuroscience" describes the role of stalls in Alzheimer's for the first time -- translation to human here 👇

The basis for everything we do in Stall Catchers was published in the article "Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries reduces cortical blood flow and impairs memory function in Alzheimer’

The Humans of Stall Catchers

What does it take to become a vessel expert in Stall Catchers? Interview with our rock star Torie! ♥

Why can't Cornell University researchers do their work Alzheimer's research work effectively without the help of citizen scientists? What does it take to become an expert in recognizing stalls? Interview

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Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up research -- it enables it! Interview with Prof. Nozomi Nishimura

Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up the research at Cornell University - it enables researchers to ask questions that they haven't been able to ask before. Wonderfully explained in this interview with our collaborator, Prof. Nozomi Nishimura: Help us do new kinds of research

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The Science Behind EyesOnALZ

In the early days of our existence (I mean EyesOnALZ, not the Universe 😇) we published a blog series about the project on the SciStarter/DiscoverMag/PLOS Blogs networks. We're sharing

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Where does the research behind Stall Catchers happen? Interview with Prof. Chris Schaffer

In Stall Catchers, you - our volunteer catchers - are analyzing movies from a mouse brain, looking for stalled blood vessels. But where do these "movies" come from? Who are our biomedical collaborators doing this research? Why are they so interested, and

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Science of Stall Catchers: Our new Magic Number 🔮✨

Ever wonder how we get reliable crowd answers in Stall Catchers? Well, there's a special kind of magic for that! Our goal with Stall Catchers is to use crowd power

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Science of Stall Catchers: the High Fat Diet dataset

Right now in Stall Catchers, our catchers are analyzing a dataset concerned with the role of a high fat diet in the formation of stalls. What does that mean? What

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We're looking for an "effective treatment" for Alzheimer's. What does that mean?

What do we mean by "Effective Treatment"? I was talking with EyesOnALZ colleague Lisa Gusman today, who has created some amazing educational videos for Stall Catchers, like this

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Science of Stall Catchers: discovery-based or hypothesis-driven?

We received an interesting question from one of our catchers, tova, about whether Stall Catchers is based on discovery-based or hypothesis-driven science. I thought it might be interesting for everyone

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New dataset in Stall Catchers - high fat diet

Just in time for the catchathon, our biomedical collaborators - the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab, prepared a fresh dataset for us to analyze in Stall Catchers! The new dataset is focused on

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How does playing Stall Catchers help fight Alzheimer's?

Get all the answers in this new great video made by Lindsay & Lisa from out team! You can watch it with Chinese, French, Portugese, Spanish subtitles!

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Why aren't we using machines instead of humans to catch stalls?

Updated, 26 Dec 2018: This issue does not stand still! For most recent updates, see this forum thread. A common, and reasonable question that we are frequently asked is "

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Why is "validation" important in Stall Catchers?

Why is "validation" important? Stalls are very rare in Alzheimer's brain, but each is extremely important. Stalls - clogged blood vessels - reduce blood flow to many downstream vessels in the brain, sometimes costing up to 30% of total blood flow. That