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Turning muscles into motors gives static organs new life

The biohybrid system developed by researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics is the first living implant that uses rewired nerves to revive paralyzed organs.

Categories: Neurotechnology, Hugh Herr, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics

Three men stand on a makeshift staircase in a cluttered lab setting.

Turning muscles into motors gives static organs new life

Shot of an adorable little boy using a digital tablet and headphones while completing a school assignment at home.

Learning with audiobooks

A slice of mouse brain dyed purple showing two pink blobs towards the center.

Brain circuit needed to incorporate new information may be linked to schizophrenia

A medical team administers anesthesia to a patient in an operating room.

Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, MIT researchers find

Two men seated in chairs, hands folded, in front of a curved wall of speakers.

How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

Horizontal portrait of Liqun Luo in a jacket and tie.

Liqun Luo named winner of the 2026 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

Abstract neural netwrok

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn

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Abstract neural netwrok

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn

Smiling scientist in a lab setting.

Feng Zhang inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Language processing beyond the neocortex

Focused African American and Asian schoolgirls help one another with their assignment in science class at a STEM elementary school. The African American girl is looking at something with a microscope.

Unpacking social intelligence