Congratulations to Collective alumni and gene engineering superstars Omar Abudayyeh & Jonathan Gootenberg on their continued success beyond MIT! Your innovative spirit is truly shaping the future. Listen now to their conversation on the podcast Frameshifts with Benjamin Arya:

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.

(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.

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

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 bit.ly/48EzEO8

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”. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

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: 💻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1a...

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...

(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:

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/ @broadinstitute.org

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/

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...

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

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.”

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!

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

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.

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.

As cells age, their nuclei get wonky. @eboyden3.bsky.social & colleagues have developed a tool that “blows up” nuclei to reveal how warped shapes scramble gene control. Read more here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big congrats to Yang GEAR Center grad student Jon Bessette—just named a 2025 @activatefellows.bsky.social 🌍🔧 Turning bold ideas into real-world impact. 🔗 www.activate.org/news/introdu...

Join K. Lisa Yang Brain Body Center, @harvardmed.bsky.social, and @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social at “The Brain Body Dialogues in Health and Disease Symposium” at Harvard on September 17 for an exciting program with discussions by nine leading experts! More info: brain.harvard.edu/hbi_events/t...

Breakthrough from the Yang Center for Bionics at MIT: a new bionic knee that’s transforming life for lower-leg amputees. 🚀🦿 #YangTanCollective #Bionics #MIT Read it here: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

The K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics' bionic knee is integrated into tissue and allows for natural movement #bionics #mit #yangtancollective #bionicknee #neuroscience #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...