In a moment more reminiscent of a Comic-Con event than a typical MIT symposium, Shawn Robinson, senior research associate at...

CRISPR-based tools have revolutionized our ability to target disease-linked genetic mutations. CRISPR technology comprises a growing family of tools that...

For decades, research has shown that our perception of the world is influenced by our expectations. These expectations, also called...

This fall, the School of Science will welcome seven new members joining the faculty in the departments of Biology, Brain...

Brain cells, or neurons, constantly tinker with their circuit connections, a crucial feature that allows the brain to store and...

The world is constantly bombarding our senses with information, but the ways in which our brain extracts meaning from this...

For decades, neuroscientists have relied on a technique for reading out electrical “spikes” of brain activity in live, behaving subjects...

The School of Science has announced that the recipients of the school’s 2019 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education...

People who are accustomed to listening to Western music, which is based on a system of notes organized in octaves,...

Our brains contain trillions of synapses — the connections that transmit messages from neuron to neuron. Within these synapses are...

Long before symptoms like memory loss even emerge, the underlying pathology of Alzheimer’s disease, such as an accumulation of amyloid...

People with autism often experience hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory input. MIT neuroscientists have now identified two brain circuits...