A new study by Daniel Cardozo Pinto, now a Harvard Junior Fellow in MCB, has uncovered a neural circuit mechanism explaining how two key brain chemicals—dopamine and serotonin—work…
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Common Plant Proteins Found to Calm the Immune System
A new study co-led by MCB’s Kazuki Nagashima and published in Science Immunology (PDF) identifies plant-derived molecules that help quiet the immune system, preventing inflammatory reactions to the…
Two PNAS Papers from the Samuel Lab Illuminate the Bacterial Flagellar Motor
Two new papers published in PNAS from the lab of Aravinthan Samuel shine fresh light on one of biology’s most iconic molecular machines: the bacterial flagellar motor. Although…
The Secret to Schooling: How Internal States Shape Social Interactions during Schooling
A school of fish can look like a single, flowing organism—dozens of bodies turning and aligning in near-perfect synchrony. But that seamless choreography emerges from many individual animals…
Smarter Microscopes, Faster Maps: Lichtman Lab’s “SmartEM” Brings AI to Connectomics
A new paper in Nature Methods (PDF) from the labs of MCB’s Jeff Lichtman and Aravinthan Samuel, of the department of physics and Center for Brain Science, introduces…
Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators
Long before flowers painted the planet in brilliant colors, some of Earth’s earliest plants were glowing—not with pigment, but with heat. A new study from the lab of…
MCB Scientists Help Reveal Structure of Cancer-Linked DNA Damage in Science Study
A long-standing mystery in microbiome research—how a gut-bacterial toxin physically damages human DNA—has finally been solved through a close collaboration led in part by researchers in the Victoria…
MCB Researchers Highlighted in Nature Publication Series
Researchers from the Brain Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) will release an extraordinary series of 16 manuscripts in Nature on November 5.. This collection, made possible by large…
A New Colorful Method for Nanoscale Imaging Harnesses Electron-induced Light
Making molecules light up at the nanoscale is key to understanding how biomolecules are organized within cells and how their interactions shape cellular function. While luminescent protein tags…
RNA Structure beyond Canonical Base Pairs Guided by Evolution
In addition to messenger RNA (mRNA) that provide the code for proteins, there are other RNAs that exert their function just as RNA, usually referred to as non-coding…
