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When she was an MIT undergraduate studying electrical engineering, Jeannette Wing ’78, SM ’79, PhD ’83 took a required computer science class and began thinking about changing her major.

Calcium is a critical signaling molecule for most cells, and it is especially important in neurons.

Algorithms modeled loosely on the brain have helped artificial intelligence take a giant leap forward in recent years.

By his own admission, Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez was underprepared to move to Zurich for a semester during his junior year.

In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move.

Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, first met Poonam when the girl was 13 years old.

A team that includes the scientist who first harnessed the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 and other systems for genome editing of eukaryotic organisms, including animals and plants, has engineered another CRISPR system, called

Researchers have developed a new way to image the brain with unprecedented resolution and speed.

A new study by researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT finds that the protein CPG2 is significantly less abundant in the brains of people with bipolar disorder (BD) and shows how specific mutati