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July 4, 2016

Seeing RNA at the nanoscale

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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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June 13, 2016

Artificial intelligence produces realistic sounds that fool humans

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Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL

For robots to navigate the world, they need to be able to make reasonable assumptions about their surroundings and what might happen during a sequence of events.

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June 2, 2016

New CRISPR system for targeting RNA

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Broad Institute

Scientists program C2c2, discovered in bacteria as a viral defense mechanism, to manipulate cellular RNA.

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June 1, 2016

Professor Emerita Suzanne Corkin dies at 79

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Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Over half a century at MIT, Corkin made lasting contributions to the biology of memory and cognitive disorders.

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