Editas Medicine, a transformative genome editing company, today announced it has secured a $43 million Series A financing led by Flagship Ventures, Polaris Partners and Third Rock Ventures with participation from Partners Innovation Fund. Following an explosion of high profile publications on CRISPR/Cas9 and TALENs, genome editing has emerged as one of the most exciting […]
Sheng Li, Peking University “Reward modulation of attention & working memory in the human brain.” On November 4, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT hosted a joint symposium with the IDG/McGovern Institutes at Beijing Normal University, Peking University, and Tsinghua University. Guest speakers gave talks on subjects ranging from learning and memory to […]
Ki Goosens’ lab finds that ghrelin, produced during stressful situations, primes the brain for post-traumatic stress disorder.
This year, five graduate students have been awarded fellowships made possible by McGovern supporters.
On October 14, 2011, Nobel laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discussed their early explorations of the visual cortex.
White matter fiber tracts in the adult human brain. Image: Zeynep Saygin
A bundle of spiny apical dendrites, reconstructed from a series of ultra-thin slices of mouse cortex. Image: Daniel Berger and Sebastian Seung (MIT); based on data from Jeff Lichtman and colleagues (Harvard).
On Tuesday, September 17th, the McGovern Institute hosted “Brains on Trial with Alan Alda,” a panel discussion about the role of neuroscience in the criminal justice system.
What if we could peer into the brain to determine guilt or innocence? Could advances in neuroscience help reform our criminal justice system?
Popular Science magazine has named two MIT junior faculty members — Pedro Reis and Feng Zhang — to its 2013 Brilliant 10 list of young stars in science and technology. The list will appear in the magazine’s October issue. “Popular Science prides itself on revealing the innovations and ideas that are laying today’s groundwork for […]
