MIT method enables ultrafast protein labeling of tens of millions of densely packed cells

Tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across large samples just as fast and uniformly as in dissociated single cells.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Feb. 6, 2025 ~9 min

Why does it hurt when you get a scrape? A neuroscientist explains the science of pain

Pain is unpleasant, but it does have a purpose.

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, Associate Professor & Associate Director, Pain Research & Intervention Center Of Excellence, University of Florida • conversation
Jan. 27, 2025 ~6 min


Cambridge researchers developing brain implants for treating Parkinson’s disease

Cambridge researchers are developing implants that could help repair the brain pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 23, 2025 ~4 min

Cambridge leads governmental project to understand impact of smartphones and social media on young people

Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on children of

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 16, 2025 ~5 min

How one brain circuit encodes memories of both places and events

A new computational model explains how neurons linked to spatial navigation can also help store episodic memories.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Jan. 15, 2025 ~9 min

For healthy hearing, timing matters

Machine-learning models let neuroscientists study the impact of auditory processing on real-world hearing.

Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
Jan. 14, 2025 ~7 min

Severance: the real cognitive neuroscience behind the Apple TV+ show’s ‘severance procedure’

Real ‘split brain’ patients have existed since the 1940s.

Lauren Ford, PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience, London South Bank University • conversation
Jan. 14, 2025 ~7 min

Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces

Place cells are known to encode individual locations, but research finds stitching together a “cognitive map” of a whole environment requires a broader ensemble of cells, aided by sleep, over several days.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Jan. 10, 2025 ~8 min


Personal interests can influence how children’s brains respond to language

McGovern Institute neuroscientists use children’s interests to probe language in the brain.

Rubina Veerakone | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
Jan. 7, 2025 ~6 min

Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination

Neurotechnology raises many high-stakes ethical questions. Setting ground rules could help protect workers and ensure that tasks are adapted to the person, rather than the other way around.

Paul Brandt-Rauf, Professor and Dean of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University • conversation
Jan. 7, 2025 ~7 min

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