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Upon infection, the C. elegans worm reshuffles the roles of brain cells and flips the functions of some of the chemicals it uses to regulate behavior.

Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds, the microbiome, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.

A quarter century after its founding, the McGovern Institute reflects on its discoveries in the areas of neuroscience, neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, brain-body connections, and therapeutics.

A new technique automatically guides an LLM toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or other format is being used.

New research using computational vision models suggests the brain’s “ventral stream” might be more versatile than previously thought.

New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds to growing evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields.

Stuart Levine ’97, director of MIT’s BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology.

A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.