Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NSF awards $25 million to MIT-based center to advance brain understanding.
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Chemical engineers find that arrays of carbon nanotubes can detect flaws in drugs and help improve production.
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Study: Positive comments create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.
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Maintaining focus on distant goals can be a challenge. A new study from MIT suggests how the brain achieves this task, and indicates that the neurotransmitter dopamine may signal the value of long-term rewards.
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MIT researchers expand the range of quantum behaviors that can be replicated in fluidic systems, offering a new perspective on wave-particle duality.
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MIT study also pinpoints where the brain stores memory traces, both false and authentic.
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Improved technique makes it easier to add or delete genes in living cells, with less risk of off-target DNA damage.
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Imagine being able to redirect powerful immune cells to fight cancer. How about reprogramming a diabetic’s skin cell into a cell that could manufacture the insulin their pancreas no longer produces? Could we dial down the production of fat cells in obese adolescents? These are major health problems and medical challenges that may be more achievable with a new fundamental technology that gets vital control molecules into cells faster, safer, and more effectively.
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Research indicates how man-made boundaries limit patent citations.
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New research enables high-speed customization of novel nanoparticles for drug delivery and other uses.
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