Opioid receptor MOR1 changes discovered in neurodegenerative disease model.

Adding a module that mimics part of the brain can prevent common errors made by computer vision models.

What's SSUP? The Sample, Simulate, Update cognitive model developed by MIT researchers learns to use tools like humans do.

Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.

Neuroscientists find that isolation provokes brain activity similar to that seen during hunger cravings.

Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.

Research on mice suggests aging affects a brain circuit critical for learning to make some types of decisions.

Recurrent processing via prefrontal cortex, necessary for quick visual object processing in primates, provides a key insight for developing brain-like artificial intelligence.

Tool developed at MIT simultaneously measures chemical and electrical brain signals, revealing unexpectedly complex relationship between brain signals.

A CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can detect nearly as many cases as the standard Covid-19 diagnostic.