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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 4d

Hugh Herr speaks with Tilly Lockey on her Open Bionics
podcast “Tilly Talks Tech” about his lived experiences and personal journey, his research and vision for the future of human augmentation, and about the beauty of human diversity.

He Lost His Legs — Then Revolutionised Bionics | Hugh Herr on Tilly Talks Tech!

YouTube video by Open Bionics

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 11d

(4/4) Words & Content taken from: "Improving Autistic Experiences in the Workplace: Key Factors and Actionable Steps", link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Portions may have been edited for brevity.

Improving Autistic Experiences in the Workplace: Key Factors and Actionable Steps - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Autistic adults have higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than non-autistic adults with and without disabilities. While previous work has highlighted factors specific to individuals and/or...

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 11d

(1/4) A new Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders from researchers identifies the top ways workplaces can be made more inclusive for autistic employees.

Nonprofit org Neurodiversity in the Workplace also supported the study.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 13d

(2/2) These grants support interdisciplinary MIT teams focused on transformative ideas, technologies, and collaborations that break traditional boundaries to advance discovery in health and the life sciences.

Read more about the grant and all the funded projects: heals.mit.edu/mit-heals-se...

MIT HEALS Seed Grant Call for Applications – MIT HEALS

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 13d

(1/2) Congratulations to the Yang Tan Collective faculty for winning inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Seed Grants!

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d

Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology, and how neurons generate behavior, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

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Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: The time for it is now

Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology and how neurons work together to generate…

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 19d

ICoN Center alumna @nogazs.bsky.social offers a fresh take on how the brain compresses visual information to guide intelligent behavior in @thetransmitter.bsky.social article: “The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception”.

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Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 24d

In this talk at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, ICoN Center director Ila Fiete dives into how the brain builds modular, high-capacity memory systems using structured neural scaffolds.

Listen now on YouTube:
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The Emergence Of Modular Structure by Ila Fiete

YouTube video by International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 26d

From worms to mice, Ed Boyden's expansion microscopy method is now scaling to whole organisms—revealing nanoscale detail across entire bodies.

Read more here: analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/arti...

Seeing it all: the rise of entire-organism expansion microscopy - 2025 - Wiley Analytical Science

The largest repository of validated, free and subject-focused e-publications and online seminars in analytical science covering latest techniques, equipment, original research, editorials, and industr...

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Oct 3

(1/2) @sarthakc.bsky.social, from the lab of Ila Fiete, studies grid cells – “the GPS of the brain”.

Explore his research & findings with this snapshot of the work and papers he and his team worked on:

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 29

CRISPR-Cas12b, pioneered by Yang Tan Collective’s Feng Zhang, just hit a milestone: edited cells made insulin for months in a diabetes patient—no immunosuppressants needed.

Read here: www.wired.com/story/no-more-injections-crispr-offers-new-hope-for-treating-diabetes/

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Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes

Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 23

Hugh Herr discusses the AMI (agonist-antagonist myoneural interface) surgery & the Yang Bionics Center’s latest advances in this recent Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior podcast episode “Dr. Hugh Herr: Bionics and Beyond”.

Listen now: www.bawarrior360.com/2025/07/15/dr-hugh-herr-bionics-and-beyond/

Dr Hugh Herr: Bionics and Beyond - Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior

The AMI Procedure and Magneto Micrometry This week I was honored to have back on my podcast, Dr Hugh Herr. Hugh is a bilateral below knee amputee and a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. H...

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 17

Congrats to our friends at @harvardmed.bsky.social on the launch of the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center–studying how sleep, immunity, pain & gut health intersect.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/m...

Autism. Chronic pain. Rising colon cancer rates. New Harvard center explores urgent health problems. - The Boston Globe

Harvard's new Brain-Body Center will dive deep into health issues that have stymied researchers.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 17

Full house at @harvardmed.bsky.social for today’s Brain Body Dialogues symposium — exploring connections between brain and body in health & disease.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 15

Can a self-guided meditation app be just as helpful in managing stress and anxiety as in-person mindfulness-based interventions in autistic adults? Researchers in the Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research at MIT sought to answer this question in new research published in the journal “Mindfulness.”

Mindfulness app helps reduce anxiety and stress in autistic adults, study finds

New research indicates that a six-week self-guided mindfulness app helped autistic adults experience meaningful reductions in anxiety, stress, and negative emotions. The improvements remained stable e...

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 12

Even the smallest choice lights up the brain like Times Square (in mice, according to the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social papers recently published in @nature.com). Congrats to Ila Fiete, Yang ICoN Center director, on her role in this landmark map of decision-making!

Everything everywhere all at once: Decision-making signals engage entire brain

The findings, gleaned from the most comprehensive map yet of brain activity during decision-making in mice, show that the process is even more distributed than previously thought.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 10

Congratulations to Chris Shallal, PhD student at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology & Yang Center for Bionics, for being named an inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Graduate Fellow!

Image Credit: MIT Media Lab

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 8

Read for yourself the cool things she's doing: www.technologyreview.com/innovator/nidhi-seethapathi/

Nidhi Seethapathi

She created a unified model of human movement for wearables and rehab devices.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congratulations to Nidhi Seethapathi, a faculty member in the Yang ICoN Center, who is featured in MIT Technology Review 2025 class of “Innovators Under 35”! We can’t wait to see how her research will impact the world.

Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Nov last year, we published a predictive theory of locomotor adaptation to novel environments, capturing learning and generalization phenomena in over ten experiments:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm honored to be featured on the 2025 Innovators Under 35 list for this work.
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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 5

Image courtesy of Emily Robinson at Prescott Lab

Prescott Lab @ MIT

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meet Emily Robinson, our newest Yang Brain-Body Fellow. An MIT Biology PhD student, she’s decoding how the vagus nerve senses inflammation.

In this image from her research, vagus neurons (blue) light up the carotid sinus—your body’s hypoxia alarm system.

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