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Technique can image individual proteins within synapses
Read more: Technique can image individual proteins within synapsesRapid imaging method could help reveal how conditions such as autism affect brain cells. Our brains contain trillions of synapses — the connections that transmit messages from neuron to neuron. Within these synapses are hundreds of different proteins, and dysfunction of these proteins can lead to conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. Researchers at MIT…
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Understanding genetic circuits and genome organization
Read more: Understanding genetic circuits and genome organizationAssistant professors Pulin Li and Seychelle Vos are investigating how cells become tissues and the proteins that organize DNA. MIT’s Department of Biology welcomed two new assistant professors in recent months: Pulin Li began at the Whitehead Institute in May, and Seychelle Vos arrived at Building 68 in September. Their respective expertise in genetic circuits…
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Biologists and mathematicians team up to explore tissue folding
Read more: Biologists and mathematicians team up to explore tissue foldingAn algorithm developed to study the structure of galaxies helps explain a key feature of embryonic development. As embryos develop, they follow predetermined patterns of tissue folding, so that individuals of the same species end up with nearly identically shaped organs and very similar body shapes. MIT scientists have now discovered a key feature of…
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