Neuroscience is something that really wasn’t on my radar as a child. My dad is a mechanical engineer who encouraged me in my love of math - I thought I was going to be an astrophysicist.
When I was going into college I had no idea what I wanted to do. I loved everything from biochemistry and music to Shakespeare, and I wasn’t sure if it was possible to combine these things.
In a nutshell, social cognition is the idea that we rely on social cues from other animals, or other humans, to understand things about our environment.
The Teaching and Learning Innovation Grants (TLIG) program provides seed funding for MIT community members to bring new ideas for STEM teaching and teacher education to life.
MIT researchers have devised a new set of proteins that can be customized to bind arbitrary RNA sequences, making it possible to image RNA inside living cells, monitor what a particular RNA strand is doing, and even contro
