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May 7, 2020

Optogenetics with SOUL

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Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Optogenetics has revolutionized neurobiology, allowing researchers to use light to

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May 5, 2020

SHERLOCK-based one-step test provides rapid and sensitive Covid-19 detection

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Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research

A team of researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Ragon Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has developed a new diagnostics platfor

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April 28, 2020

Studying the brain and supporting the mind

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Becky Ham | MIT News correspondent

“I’ve always been interested in science from a very young age, and my grandmother was actually a really big influence in that regard,” says Tarun Kamath, when asked about his academic inspirations.

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April 28, 2020

How could Covid-19 and the body’s immune response affect the brain?

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Although the most immediately threatening symptoms of Covid-19 are respiratory, neuroscientists are intently studying the pandemic from the perspective of the central nervous system.

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April 27, 2020

Muscle signals can pilot a robot

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Rachel Gordon | CSAIL

Albert Einstein famously postulated that “the only real valuable thing is intuition,” arguably one of the most important keys to understanding intention and communication. 

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April 24, 2020

Six from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2020

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Six MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced Thursday.

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April 22, 2020

Covid-19 calls MIT physician-scientist to front-line respiratory care

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

As both a neurologist who sees patients at Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical postdoc conducting Alzheimer’s disease clinical studies at MIT’s Picower Institute, Diane Chan already has tw

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April 21, 2020

Congratulations to BCS Award Honorees

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Tristan Davies | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is honored to announce this year’s awards for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.

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April 21, 2020

Examining the social impact of Covid-19

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Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research

After being forced to relocate from their MIT dorms during the Covid19 crisis, two members of Professor Rebecca Saxe's lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Re

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April 14, 2020

Three from MIT awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships

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Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research

MIT faculty members Sabine Iatridou, Jonathan Gruber, and Rebecca Saxe are among 175 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2020 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

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