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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

MIT researchers used laboratory rats in a maze to study what happens when the brain forms a habit. Rats learned to associate the location of a sound, at left in diagram, with the location of a food reward. The researchers then changed the environment by removing the reward, in effect breaking the habit. When the reward was restored, however, the neural pathways created by the habit immediately ref...

Brain researchers explain why old habits die hard

October 19, 2005

Neuroscience events to mark brain and cog complex opening

October 18, 2005

Feel the magnetic force

October 5, 2005

MIT chosen for national role fighting cancer

October 4, 2005

Team discovers why melanoma is so malignant

September 23, 2005

Team explores how brain cuts through clutter

September 9, 2005

Scientists discover key to embryonic stem-cell potential

September 8, 2005

MIT leading research into chimp genome

August 31, 2005

CBI forum tackles drug safety issues

August 24, 2005