The formation of social hierarchies is a fundamental aspect of group living, reducing conflict and guiding behavior across species—from animals to humans. Yet, the precise neural and molecular…
In a new study in Neuron (PDF), researchers from Naoshige Uchida’s MCB lab provide an unprecedented look at how the brain makes foraging decisions—choices between sticking with a…
Harvard Junior Fellow Camille Testard has been awarded the highly competitive Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science, a prestigious five-year award that supports exceptional early-career researchers with…
MCB researchers show GABA-based sedation in newborns speeds up brain development, confirming decades of animal research in a human cohort. A new longitudinal study led by MCB’s Takao…
A new Nature study from the lab of OEB and MCB’s Hopi Hoekstra reveals that wild mice from different environments use distinct defensive strategies when faced with threats—differences that…
What if a gene program evolved that could predict the future? Would organisms use it to boost their reproductive success? Recent work from the MCB lab of Craig…
MCB Professor Andrew Murray has been elected as an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a distinction that honors more than 2,100 leading scientists from…
MCB congratulates Carolyn Elya, Assistant Professor of MCB and affiliate of the Center for Brain Science, on receiving a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. This competitive early-career award,…
The Charles H. Hood Foundation has awarded MCB Assistant Professor Kazuki Nagashima a Child Health Research Award, supporting his investigation into a fundamental—but poorly understood—process that may hold…
Daniel Cardozo Pinto, soon to be appointed a Harvard Junior Fellow, represents a compelling new voice in systems neuroscience. His research, grounded in a profound curiosity about the…
