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Researchers at MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto have developed a computer system whose ability to produce a variation of a character in an unfamiliar writing system, on the first try, is indistinguis

Although it is known that psychiatric disorders have a strong genetic component, untangling the web of genes contributing to each disease is a daunting task.

MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have developed a new way to classify neurons by labeling and imaging the proteins found in each cell.

The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the Broad Institute.

Sean Perry, a technical associate at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, died suddenly in his hometown of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on Monday, Nov. 23. He was 39.

Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their fathers.

When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons.

There are many ways to divvy up a pile of cookies. Among the possibilities: Everyone can get an equal number, or those who contributed more to the cookie baking can get a larger share.

MIT researchers took home several awards last night at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

For decades, Alzheimer’s disease research has focused on neurons. That’s logical: after all, it’s our brain cells that become diseased, causing a decline in our memory and ability to think.