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Editing the genome with high precisionNew method allows scientists to insert multiple genes in specific locations, delete defective genes.

Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissuesNew design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.

How the brain controls our habitsMIT neuroscientists identify a brain region that can switch between new and old habits.

Calcium reveals connections between neuronsNew way to image brain-cell activity could shed light on autism and other psychiatric disorders.

Brain’s language center has multiple rolesNeuroscientists find Broca’s area is really two subunits, each with its own function.

Mehrdad Jazayeri to join BCS, McGovern Institute faculty

McGovern neuroscientist Constantine-Paton wins lifetime achievement award

Four from MIT win NIH grantsBrown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research.

Predicting how patients respond to therapyBrain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder.

Stroke disrupts how brain controls muscle synergiesDistinctive patterns could allow doctors to develop better rehab programs for stroke patients.

Thinking about others is not child’s playMIT study reveals changes in brain activity as children learn to read other people’s behavior.

Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar formatCourse is the sixth of seven courses MIT OCW will publish this year specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.

Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli PrizesBiennial prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience include a $1 million cash award in each field.

Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cellsNew method offers automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain.

McGovern Institute honors inventor of brain scan technologyDavid Cohen honored for his invention of magnetoencephalography.

Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prizeEd Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize

McGovern investigator Feng Zhang named Searle Scholar

New tools to answer timeless questionsAlan Jasanoff is designing imaging sensors that could help reveal the brain’s inner workings.

The power of being heardWhen it comes to intergroup conflict, the group with less power benefits more from sharing its perspective.

McGovern Institute to honor synapses expert Roger NicollNamed winner of the 2012 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.

Rebecca Saxe named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum

James DiCarlo to head Department of Brain and Cognitive SciencesNew department head succeeds Mriganka Sur, who will lead the new Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT.

Seeking the neurological roots of conflictMIT neuroscientists explore how longstanding conflict influences empathy for others.

Boyden named inaugural recipient of IET’s Harvey Engineering Research PrizeHonored for his pioneering research contributions to the field of optogenetics, in which neurons are genetically modified to respond to light.

Patterns of connections reveal brain functionsNeuroscientists identify face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.

Neuroscientists identify a master controller of memoryOne gene appears to regulate the brain’s ability to form new memories.

Brain rhythms are key to learningNew study from MIT neuroscientists finds that brain waves shift frequency as a new task becomes routine.

Dyslexia independent of IQBrain-imaging study suggests that reading difficulties are the same regardless of overall intelligence — and that more children could benefit from support in school.

3 Questions: John Gabrieli on studying traumatic memoriesSept. 11, 2001, is a day that lives in infamy. But how accurately do we remember it?