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Study finds circular RNA helps drive brain development

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Oct 16
[Source: David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | October 16, 2025] MIT neuroscientists show in a […]
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MIT imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution

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Aug 7
[Source: David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | August 07, 2025] By combining several cutting-edge imaging […]
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Study finds key role for non-neural brain cells in processing vision

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Jul 22
[Source: David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | July 22, 2025] MIT researchers employed a novel […]
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Connect or reject: Extensive rewiring builds binocular vision in the brain

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Jul 1
[Source: David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | July 1, 2025] A first-of-its-kind study in mice […]
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Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests

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Feb 18
New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn’t prevent further exploration, even if it […]
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New grant to study possibility of an immunotherapy for autism

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Nov 2
Picower Institute-based collaboration will study mechanisms that might enable peripheral immune cells to deliver a potentially therapeutic molecule to the […]
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Mriganka Sur on the research origins of the first approved drug to treat Rett syndrome

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Mar 13
On March 10 the FDA approved Trofinetide, a drug based on the protein IGF-1. The MIT professor’s original research showing […]
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Astrocyte cells critical for learning skilled movements

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Mar 10
[Source: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | March 10, 2023] From steering a car to swinging a tennis […]
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Sur Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Receives MIT School of Science “Infinite Expansion” Award

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Feb 10
Kyle Jenks, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sur Lab, has been selected for the 2023 Infinite Expansion Award in recognition […]
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The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements

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Nov 29
[Source: Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine | November 28, 2022 ] Amouse is running on a treadmill embedded in a virtual […]
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