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… Does brain’s electrical encoding of information ‘tune’ sub-cellular structure? Brain waves carry information. A new … electric fields optimize brain network efficiency and stability by shaping the brain’s molecular infrastructure. To produce its many functions, …

… Neuroscience Director, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Co-Director, Alana Down Syndrome Center Professor, … are taking a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the molecular, cellular, and circuit basis of neurodegenerative disorders. …

… 2019 Members of Picower labs presented scores of talks and posters at Neuroscience 2019 in a wide range of areas. … links for abstracts. Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 Session 44 Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms in Tauopathies 4:00 PM - 5:00 … Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA Display Abstract Session 520 Molecular Structural Imaging 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Presentation …

… February 21, 2019 News Feature Blending big data and benchtop biology, Tsai and Kellis labs tackle brain diseases In their collaboration … manipulation. This allows their teams to study genetic and molecular differences between healthy and diseased samples …

… Susumu Tonegawa Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Investigator in The Picower Institute for … to hundreds of functionally and structurally distinct cellular assemblies, and extensive yet specific networkings … imaging (with confocal and two-photon microscopy), and molecular and cellular biology. The abnormality one may …

… October 7, 2019 News Feature Memory and its meaning Lest anyone forget, in 1994 when MIT launched … uses memory to survive and thrive. They have mastered the molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms of memory systems enough to …

… expected to double every 20 years as life expectancy rises and populations age. Currently, there are no effective therapies and the economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease is … Michael Sipser, MIT’s dean of science from 2014 to 2020 and Donner Professor of Mathematics. "The tremendous need to …

… new research endeavor, technology development initiative, and fellowship program launched with a $28.6 million gift … in studying Down syndrome’s impact in the brain at the cellular and genomic level, examining key differences in gene … patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. At the molecular and cellular level, Professor Manolis Kellis, …

… Colloquium September 23, 2021 Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Stanford … on normal oligodendroglial precursor cells, a putative cellular origin for many forms of glioma, suggests that … clinic. She has led several of her discoveries from basic molecular work to clinical trials for children and young …