Bioengineering and biotechnology

Brain and Cog dedication Friday

November 29, 2005

Mriganka Sur, head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, stands on a balcony overlooking the 90-foot atrium inside the new Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, which will be officially dedicated on Friday, Dec. 2.

Mriganka Sur sees 'great synergy' in new complex

November 29, 2005

Flatworms yield insights into mystery of regeneration

November 28, 2005

Greater activation in the medial temporal lobe (MTL on the left) makes it more likely that a fact will actually be remembered. Greater activation in left ventral prefrontal cortex (on the right) corresponds to subjective prediction that a fact will be remembered ("judgment of learning").

Do you remember to study? Here's why

November 23, 2005

Brain waves called theta rhythms, shown simultaneously recorded in the hippocampus (grey) and prefrontal cortex (black), are shown reaching peak synchrony (the yellow streak and white blob).

Brain structures 'tune in' to rhythms to coordinate activity

November 17, 2005

President George W. Bush congratulates MIT Institute Professor Phillip A. Sharp on receiving the National Medal of Science on Monday, Feb. 13, in the White House.

MIT professors receive Medal of Science

November 16, 2005

Jacks to share cancer research prize

November 16, 2005

MIT researcher presents new view of how the cortex forms

November 10, 2005

Teams lay BioBrick foundation for genetic engineering

November 8, 2005

Teams gather for genetic engineering competition

November 3, 2005

Neurons in a purely visual brain region called the inferotemporal (IT) cortex respond selectively to different images. As pictures were randomly presented to the monkey during specific intervals (top), neurons at different sites in IT produce distinct patterns of activity to each picture (bottom). For example, neurons at site 1 favor the toy and the yam, while neurons at site 3 prefer the monkey f...

Neuroscientists break code on sight

November 3, 2005

Any two unrelated people are 99.9 percent identical at the level of DNA sequence. The remaining 0.1 percent difference can help explain why one person has distinct physical features, is more susceptible to a disease or responds differently to a drug or an environmental factor than another person.

HapMap provides 'catalog' of human genetic variation

October 27, 2005

Research team borrows metal tool for protein engineering

October 25, 2005

MIT cancer program granted $3.2 million

October 21, 2005

Whitehead research opens door to new stem cell work

October 19, 2005

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