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January 10, 2013

Gloria Choi to join McGovern Institute

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Charles Jennings | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research has announced the appointment of Gloria Choi as a new principal investigator, beginning this summer.
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January 3, 2013

Editing the genome with high precision

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Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
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.
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January 3, 2013

Simons Center for the Social Brain offering seed grants, postdoc fellowships

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Simons Center for the Social Brain
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. The deadline for applications is Feb. 28, 2013.
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January 2, 2013

New insights into how brain synapses transmit information

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Cathryn Delude | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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.
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December 12, 2012

In search of better antidepressants

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Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
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 antidepressants.
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November 30, 2012

Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues

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Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
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 brain tissues in a lab dish
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November 26, 2012

Scientists image brain structures that deteriorate in Parkinson’s

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Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by Parkinson’s disease.
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November 21, 2012

Brain waves encode rules for behavior

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Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level.
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November 5, 2012

Inside the unconscious brain

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Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
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.
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October 31, 2012

MIT sailing receives trio of ICSA All-Academic Team honors

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Mindy Brauer | DAPER

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.

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