Senior skipper Andrew Sommer along with former teammates Eamon Glackin ’12 and Steph Tong ’12 were named to the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) All-Academic Team.
A new study from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reveals, for the first time, what happens inside the brain as patients lose consciousness during anesthesia.
One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level.
A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by Parkinson’s disease.
Borrowing from microfabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry, MIT and Harvard Medical School (HMS) engineers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to create three-dimensional
A new study from researchers at MIT and Stanford University pinpoints brain cells that appear to be critically involved in depression, offering a possible target for new, more effective antidepress
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.
The Simons Center for the Social Brain (SCSB) at MIT is pleased to announce its 2013 Round 1 funding opportunities for faculty seed grants and postdoctoral fellowships.
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.
MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research has announced the appointment of Gloria Choi as a new principal investigator, beginning this summer.
