Author: Julie Pryor
Seminar: Robert Campbell | Sept 26 @ 10:30AM | 46-3189
Seminar: Mikhail Rabinovich | Oct 22 @ 12PM | 46-3002
Colloquium: Ethan Bromberg-Martin, PhD | Sept 25 @ 4PM | 46-3002
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McGovern Researchers Take Ice Bucket Challenge
Feng Zhang shares Gabbay Award for CRISPR research
Feng Zhang of MIT and the Broad Institute, Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Umeå University have been awarded Brandeis University’s 17th Annual Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine.
The researchers are being honored for their work on the CRISPR/cas system, a genome editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to a DNA sequence — an advance that is expected to transform many areas of biomedical research and may ultimately form the basis of new treatments for human genetic disease.
State Secretary of Education visits the McGovern Institute
July 10, 2014: Massachusetts Secretary of Education Matthew Malone (center) visits the McGovern Institute to learn more about dyslexia research in the Gabrieli lab. Photo: Julie Pryor
Inside the adult ADHD brain
In the first study to compare patterns of brain activity in adults who recovered from childhood ADHD and those who did not, McGovern Institute neuroscientists have discovered key differences in a brain communication network that is active when the brain is at wakeful rest and not focused on a particular task.
The findings offer evidence of a biological basis for adult ADHD and should help to validate the criteria used to diagnose the disorder, according to the researchers. Read more >>