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Not Every Reader’s Struggle Is The Same

An MIT study finds that children from different socioeconomic backgrounds tend to have different brain patterns associated with reading difficulty.

Genome-Wide Screens Could Reveal The Liver’s Secrets

A new technique for studying liver cells within an organism could shed light on the genes required for regeneration.

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An Easier Way To Remove Medical Devices

Metal stents or staples that disintegrate on demand inside the body could eliminate some surgical and endoscopic procedures.

Study Urges Caution When Comparing Neural Networks To The Brain

Computing systems that appear to generate brain-like activity may be the result of researchers guiding them to a specific outcome.

A New Control System For Synthetic Genes

Researchers have developed a technique that could help fine-tune the production of monoclonal antibodies and other useful proteins.

How the Brain Responds to Surprising Events

When your brain needs you to pay attention to something important, one way it can do that is to send out a burst of noradrenaline, according to a new MIT study.

MIT, Cancer Research UK Manchester grow pancreatic 'organoids' to help study of cancer

MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic cells.