Feng Zhang, a pioneer of the revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing technology, TAL effector proteins, and optogenetics, is the recipient of the 2017 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize for invention in the United States. Zhang is a core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain […]
Mothers who experience an infection severe enough to require hospitalization during pregnancy are at higher risk of having a child with autism. Two new studies from MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School shed more light on this phenomenon and identify possible approaches to preventing it. In research on mice, the researchers found that […]
Recording electrical signals from inside a neuron in the living brain can reveal a great deal of information about that neuron’s function and how it coordinates with other cells in the brain. However, performing this kind of recording is extremely difficult, so only a handful of neuroscience labs around the world do it. To make […]
Success rate is comparable to that of highly trained scientists performing the process manually.
How biological memory really works: Insights from the man with world’s best memory (and why computer metaphors like read/write operations, engrams, and traces are all wrong)
June 12, 2017: Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research – Opening Remarks
Expanding tissue samples before imaging offers detailed information about disease.
Zhang recognized for developing neuroscience and gene editing technologies to eradicate devastating diseases.
At the start of the twentieth century, Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s drawings of brain cells under the microscope revealed a remarkable diversity of cell types within the brain. Through sketch after sketch, Cajal showed that the brain was not, as many believed, a web of self-similar material, but rather that it is composed of billions […]
On June 12, 2017, John Gabrieli presented a talk at the Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research launch celebration.
