Yang Tan Collective
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The Yang Tan Collective accelerates collaboration in basic science, research, and engineering to realize translative strategies and technologies that achieve a healthy mind in a healthy body and improve human wellbeing at a global scale. yangtan.mit.edu
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🎁 Next week will be our final 3 gifts! If you have any guesses for Gift #3 (or the last two), drop them below!!
🎁 Next week will be our final 3 gifts! If you have any guesses for Gift #3 (or the last two), drop them below!!
Brain pathways that control dopamine release may influence motor control
Two newly discovered brain pathways appear to relay emotional information that helps to shape the motivation to take action. The pathways arise in the striatum and connect to dopamine-producing neuron...
news.mit.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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🎁 Next week will be our final 3 gifts! If you have any guesses for Gift #3 (or the last two), drop them below!!
🎁 Next week will be our final 3 gifts! If you have any guesses for Gift #3 (or the last two), drop them below!!
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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations in sunlight throughout the day. Because it requires no extra batteries, it offe...
news.mit.edu
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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📚 For a more in-depth reading, check out the paper in the Advanced Materials Journal: “Multifunctional Neural Probes Enable Bidirectional Electrical, Optical, and Chemical Recording and Stimulation In Vivo”
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Multifunctional Neural Probes Enable Bidirectional Electrical, Optical, and Chemical Recording and Stimulation In Vivo
Convergence drawing is used to create flexible, microscale, multifunctional fiber-based neural probes. Optimized materials selection enables individual devices to perform neural recording, electrical...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
📚 For a more in-depth reading, check out the paper in the Advanced Materials Journal: “Multifunctional Neural Probes Enable Bidirectional Electrical, Optical, and Chemical Recording and Stimulation In Vivo”
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📚 Read more about this 2025 ICoN Center study: news.mit.edu/2025/cost-of...
The cost of thinking
MIT McGovern Institute researchers find a surprising parallel in the ways humans and new AI models solve complex problems.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
📚 Read more about this 2025 ICoN Center study: news.mit.edu/2025/cost-of...
Learn more about the goals of these centers & the amazing people doing research there:
🌟 Yang Tan Collective at MIT: yangtan.mit.edu/centers/
🌟Yang Tan Collective at Harvard: yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
🌟 Yang Tan Collective at MIT: yangtan.mit.edu/centers/
🌟Yang Tan Collective at Harvard: yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Learn more about the goals of these centers & the amazing people doing research there:
🌟 Yang Tan Collective at MIT: yangtan.mit.edu/centers/
🌟Yang Tan Collective at Harvard: yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
🌟 Yang Tan Collective at MIT: yangtan.mit.edu/centers/
🌟Yang Tan Collective at Harvard: yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
📚 Read more about this amazing discovery: news.mit.edu/2025/ancient...
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
An ancient RNA-guided system could simplify delivery of gene editing therapies
MIT scientists have uncovered ancient systems with potential to expand the genome editing toolbox. These tandem interspaced guide RNA (TIGR) systems use RNA to guide them to specific sites on DNA.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
📚 Read more about this amazing discovery: news.mit.edu/2025/ancient...
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
📚 Read more about this amazing discovery: news.mit.edu/2025/ancient...
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
An ancient RNA-guided system could simplify delivery of gene editing therapies
MIT scientists have uncovered ancient systems with potential to expand the genome editing toolbox. These tandem interspaced guide RNA (TIGR) systems use RNA to guide them to specific sites on DNA.
news.mit.edu
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📚 Read more about this amazing discovery: news.mit.edu/2025/ancient...
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
(2/2) She’s working with ICoN postdoc @andreadevarda.bsky.social, using multilingual neural-network models to map how the brain understands languages.
Read the conversation ⬇️
www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...
Read the conversation ⬇️
www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL...
www.quantamagazine.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
(2/2) She’s working with ICoN postdoc @andreadevarda.bsky.social, using multilingual neural-network models to map how the brain understands languages.
Read the conversation ⬇️
www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...
Read the conversation ⬇️
www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...
These future clinicians are poised to become Sierra Leone’s first cohort of orthotics and prosthetics professionals and to reshape disability care nationwide!
📚 Do some light reading by learning more about this amazing program: yangtan.mit.edu/mits-k-lisa-...
📚 Do some light reading by learning more about this amazing program: yangtan.mit.edu/mits-k-lisa-...
MIT's K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics celebrates Sierra Leone's inaugural class of orthotic and prosthetic clinicians - Yang Tan Collective at MIT
Yang Tan Collective at MIT
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December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
These future clinicians are poised to become Sierra Leone’s first cohort of orthotics and prosthetics professionals and to reshape disability care nationwide!
📚 Do some light reading by learning more about this amazing program: yangtan.mit.edu/mits-k-lisa-...
📚 Do some light reading by learning more about this amazing program: yangtan.mit.edu/mits-k-lisa-...
Did you know the Yang Tan Collective at Harvard has two amazing centers that collaborate with two of the Yang Tan Collective at MIT centers? Learn more about the Yang Tan Collective at Harvard at yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
Yang Tan Collective At Harvard
yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Did you know the Yang Tan Collective at Harvard has two amazing centers that collaborate with two of the Yang Tan Collective at MIT centers? Learn more about the Yang Tan Collective at Harvard at yangtan.hms.harvard.edu
To learn more about the incredible research the Yang Bionics Center is doing, visit: yangtan.mit.edu/bionics
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#InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities #IDPWD #AccessibilityforAll #DisabilityAwareness #YangBionicsCenter #YangTanCollective
K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics - Yang Tan Collective at MIT
Yang Tan Collective at MIT
yangtan.mit.edu
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
To learn more about the incredible research the Yang Bionics Center is doing, visit: yangtan.mit.edu/bionics
@mitmedialab.bsky.social @mitscience.bsky.social
#InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities #IDPWD #AccessibilityforAll #DisabilityAwareness #YangBionicsCenter #YangTanCollective
@mitmedialab.bsky.social @mitscience.bsky.social
#InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities #IDPWD #AccessibilityforAll #DisabilityAwareness #YangBionicsCenter #YangTanCollective
(3/3) ✍️ Applications for Fall 2026 are open now and until Feb 13, 2026: bcs.mit.edu/postbac1
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
(3/3) ✍️ Applications for Fall 2026 are open now and until Feb 13, 2026: bcs.mit.edu/postbac1