Gloria Choi to join McGovern Institute
Choi will serve as McGovern Investigator and as assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences.
Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries
MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.
Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize
Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize
Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells
Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory.
Boyden named inaugural recipient of IET’s Harvey Engineering Research Prize
Honored for his pioneering research contributions to the field of optogenetics, in which neurons are genetically modified to respond to light.
Seeing the light
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.