The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought — and a unified awareness of thought and experience — arises from analog computations, MIT neuroscientists argue in a new review.
New research offers support for the possibility that complex biological molecules could exist in the highly acidic environment of Venus’s cloud layer.
This discovery points toward new combination strategies against cancer, and may explain the iron buildup seen in disorders such as early-onset Parkinson’s disease.
To keep track of what’s going on in front of it, the brain relies not only on what it sees, but also a comparison with what it just saw. A new study pinpoints the circuit that provides that service.
MIT researchers find that activity in the brain’s language network is nearly identical in young and old people.
Researchers explore how a key factor can mitigate or promote tuberculosis transmission.
A new study by Whitehead Institute researchers identifies how the widespread parasite Toxoplasma gondii survives in crowded environments in infected cells, which helps it persist in long-lasting brain cysts.
A new study by MIT researchers shows that inhibiting caspase-1 can reduce the risk of tumor growth.
MIT researchers discovered a cellular dance that may offer clues to the development of cancer, asthma, and other diseases.
Derived from patient tumor samples and available to researchers around the world, the cells will aid the development of new cancer treatments.
MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s annual Congressional Visit Days.
MIT researchers have found that a ketogenic high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet fuels the growth of intestinal tumors.
The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
A simple brain circuit measures objects’ distance from the body using touch signals from a rodent’s whiskers, MIT scientists find.
Brain cells take in many signals through thousands of circuit connections. A new study discerns the rules that turn inputs into a functional arrangement for neurons that process vision.