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August 2, 2016

Imaging the brain at multiple size scales

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Ann Trafton | MIT News Office

New technique can reveal subcellular details and long-range connections.

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July 22, 2016

Researchers identify genome-modifying enzyme linked to Rett Syndrome

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Helen Knight | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

People with Rett Syndrome, a rare and debilitating neurodevelopmental disorder, exhibit many autism-like traits. Now researchers at MIT have identified a protein that plays an important role in the disorder.

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July 13, 2016

Why we like the music we do

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

In Western styles of music, from classical to pop, some combinations of notes are generally considered more pleasant than others.

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July 4, 2016

Seeing RNA at the nanoscale

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Microscopy technique allows scientists to pinpoint RNA molecules in the brain.

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July 1, 2016

Five School of Science faculty members granted tenure

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The School of Science recently announced that five of its faculty members have been granted tenure by MIT.

This year’s newly tenured professors are:

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June 30, 2016

Featured video: Building a really big brain

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When MIT moved its campus from a muddle of buildings in Boston’s Copley Square to its new waterfront location in Cambridge 100 years ago, it was an “impressive goodbye,” a

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June 24, 2016

Kwanghun Chung receives McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award

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Institute for Medical Engineering and Science | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, core faculty of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an assistant professor in the MIT departments of Ch

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June 23, 2016

A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine

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Jonathan Mingle | MIT News correspondent

Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.

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June 18, 2016

Feng Zhang named 2016 Tang Prize laureate

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Broad Institute and MIT scientist among three honored for CRISPR contributions.

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June 14, 2016

In his own words: BCS graduate student Ben Deen studies abstract inferences

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I am a neuroscientist motivated by cognitive science questions.

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