Chemical process called ELAST allows labeling probes to infuse more quickly, and makes samples tough enough for repeated handling.

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.

Neurons that store abstract representations of past experiences are activated when a new, similar event takes place.

Neuroscientists identify genes that modulate the disease’s toxic effects.

The same neurons responsible for encoding reward also form new memories to suppress fearful ones.

An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice.

Scientists pinpoint the role of a receptor in vision degradation in amblyopia.

Postdoc Héctor De Jesús-Cortés works to build up the STEM pipeline from his homeland to MIT and beyond.

Clumps of amyloid protein emerge early in deep regions, such as the mammillary body, and march outward in the brain along specific circuits.