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MIT McGovern Institute: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Brain - MIT McGovern Institute

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Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as sensory perception, memory formation, and control of movement.

McGovern Institute Investigator Edward Boyden. Photo: Justin Knight

In an advance that could help neuroscientists ma...


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McGovern Investigator Robert Horvitz shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine with colleagues Sydney Brenner and John Sulston for discoveries that helped explain how genes regulate programmed cell death and organ development. Photo: AP Images/Aynsley Floyd

A functional nervous system depends on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. So as developing organisms build their nerv...


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