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VIB and KU Leuven announce public access to a hibernating-brain atlas

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VIB and KU Leuven announced on 12 November 2026 that they are making a cellular atlas of hibernating golden hamster brains publicly available. The team aims to support research into mechanisms resembling some processes observed in Alzheimer’s disease.

A golden hamster photographed in 2024.
Archive illustration, 6 November 2024; not an animal from the study. HamsterHaver (Otto Rock) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; unchanged. — HamsterHaver (Otto Rock) / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ; 6 novembre 2024 ; sans modification.

The team studied gene activity in the hippocampus. It describes a brain immune-cell response partly resembling Alzheimer’s, without amyloid accumulation or neurodegeneration in this animal model.

The new announcement concerns access to the atlas: PubMed dates the Science Advances article to 4 November in a 6 November issue. These findings do not validate a human treatment.

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