The McGovern Institute for Brain Research has appointed a new faculty member, Mehrdad Jazayeri, who will join the institute in January 2013.
Throughout the animal kingdom, cells encapsulate molecules and proteins — that they move within or between — in tiny vesicles, which release their contents when they fuse with another membrane.
Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique for precisely altering the genomes of living cells by adding or deleting genes.
Epileptic seizures occur when neurons in the brain become excessively active.
About 20 years ago, scientists discovered the gene that causes Huntington’s disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 30,000 Americans.
MIT hosted a full day of activities on Feb.
If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him.
The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably makes you feel happy, while reflecting on being bullied provokes more negative
