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Active campaigns with the strongest momentum — ranked by backer count weighted against how far along their funding is.

#1
Neuroscience9d left

All-optical interrogation of hippocampal place-cell remapping during navigation

Dr. Priya Nair · MIT

Combining two-photon holographic stimulation with calcium imaging to causally test how CA1 ensembles reorganize spatial maps in real time.

90% funded
2,110 backers9 days remaining
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#2
Biology18d left

Prime-editing correction of pathogenic ABCA4 variants in retinal organoids

Dr. Lena Okafor · UC San Diego

Deploying a split-intein prime editor to revert Stargardt-causing mutations in patient-derived photoreceptor organoids, with single-cell readout of correction efficiency.

79% funded
1,284 backers18 days remaining
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#3
Biology6d left

Cryo-EM structure of the bacterial flagellar export gate at 2.4 Å

Dr. Henrik Vogel · Max Planck Institute

Resolving the type-III secretion export apparatus to reveal how flagellar proteins are threaded and energized during assembly.

90% funded
1,043 backers6 days remaining
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#4
ComputationFUNDED

Microsecond all-atom MD simulations of GPCR allosteric modulation

Dr. Tomas Weber · ETH Zürich

Running enhanced-sampling free-energy calculations on a GPU cluster to resolve cryptic allosteric pockets in class-A receptors for drug design.

100% funded
803 backersgoal reached
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#5
Neuroscience14d left

Real-time imaging of glymphatic clearance during slow-wave sleep in mice

Dr. Sofia Lindqvist · Karolinska

Using light-sheet microscopy and fluorescent tracers to quantify how sleep architecture drives CSF-mediated removal of amyloid-beta.

65% funded
967 backers14 days remaining
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#6
Environmental22d left

Environmental DNA monitoring of reef recovery after marine heatwaves

Dr. Imogen Reyes · James Cook University

Sequencing eDNA from autonomous reef samplers to track biodiversity rebound and bleaching resilience across the Great Barrier Reef.

62% funded
718 backers22 days remaining
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#7
Biology26d left

Direct RNA nanopore sequencing of m6A modifications in hypoxic tumor cells

Dr. Marcus Hale · Johns Hopkins

Mapping the dynamic m6A epitranscriptome at single-molecule resolution to understand how hypoxia rewires translation in glioblastoma.

64% funded
540 backers26 days remaining
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#8
Physics40d left

Nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry for label-free single-neuron action potentials

Dr. Daniel Cho · Caltech

Building a diamond NV-center sensor array to non-invasively detect the magnetic signatures of firing neurons at micrometer resolution.

37% funded
611 backers40 days remaining
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#9
Chemistry31d left

Operando XRD study of ion migration in mixed-cation perovskite solar cells

Dr. Aisha Rahman · EPFL

Tracking halide segregation under continuous illumination to engineer perovskite compositions that survive 1000-hour stability benchmarks.

37% funded
392 backers31 days remaining
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