Picower Institute postdocs advance new ideas, gain skills with support of NIH’s ‘K99’ awards

As part of study, team invents new open-source microscopy platform

MIT researchers pinpoint mechanism and demonstrate drugs could help

Lateral septum encodes spatial information with a special emphasis on where the reward lies

While home from the bench, Tonegawa lab postdoc co-runs Twitter feed of the Covid-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database

Award will help researchers understand how the body’s microbiome influences the brain

Knocking out the immune cytokine IL-6 exacerbates symptoms in HD model mice, affects neural connection genes

Collaboration will develop compound to correct gene expression in brain’s immune cells

Drug compound, tested in mice, could be effective in treating the leading heritable cause of intellectual disability and autism

Reactivating an enzyme that promotes DNA repair can help to reverse age-related cognitive decline in mice.

By making brain and other tissues reversibly stretchable or compressible, ELAST allows labeling probes to infuse more quickly

The protein Synaptotagmin 7 limits supply of neurotransmitter-containing vesicles for release at synapses