Imaging method reveals new cells and structures in human brain tissue
A new microscopy technique that enables high-resolution imaging could one day help doctors diagnose and treat brain tumors.
A new microscopy technique that enables high-resolution imaging could one day help doctors diagnose and treat brain tumors.
Team-based targeted projects, multi-mentor fellowships ensure that scientists studying social cognition, behavior, and autism integrate multiple perspectives and approaches to pressing questions.
An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.
Across mammalian species, brain waves are slower in deep cortical layers, while superficial layers generate faster rhythms.
A new study finds that language regions in the left hemisphere light up when reading uncommon sentences, while straightforward sentences elicit little response.
Study shows computational models trained to perform auditory tasks display an internal organization similar to that of the human auditory cortex.
Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicks off an MIT symposium on the promise and potential pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.
Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior.
By analyzing bacterial data, researchers have discovered thousands of rare new CRISPR systems that have a range of functions and could enable gene editing, diagnostics, and more.
Seed projects, posters represent a wide range of labs working on technologies, therapeutic strategies, and fundamental research to advance understanding of age-related neurodegenerative disease.
BRAIN CONNECTS supports McGovern Institute and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences research aimed at mapping the brain’s connections.
Two studies find “self-supervised” models, which learn about their environment from unlabeled data, can show activity patterns similar to those of the mammalian brain.
The fibers could help with testing treatments for nerve-related pain.
The awards support creative, innovative research with a broad impact.
Images that humans perceive as completely unrelated can be classified as the same by computational models.