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USA Today spotlights Yang Center for Bionics Co-Director Hugh Herr's efforts to connect bionic limbs to nerves and muscles, creating a natural extension of the body.
usatoday.com/story/news/2026โฆ
How does the brain know when drinking is quenching thirst ๐ง ๐ฐ? Introduced by Yang Brain-Body Center Director Polina Anikeeva, Prof. Sung-Yon Kim @syk_net of Seoul National University discussed his research with the MIT community at the Yang Brain-Body Center Seminar on Oct 13.
Researchers from Yang ICoN Center, including ICoN postdoc fellow @qianli_liao, were successful in designing a self-organizing computational neural network that approaches learning like a brain โ adjusting itself as it learns without outside input.
news.mit.edu/2026/how-artifiโฆ
Congratulations to K. Lisa Yang ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow @devarda_a, who has been named one of the 2026 @statnews #STATWunderkinds! ๐๐
๐ Read more: statnews.com/wunderkinds/andโฆ
Join us next week for the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center at MIT seminar with Professor Sung-Yon Kim @syk_net from Seoul National University. We hope to see you there!
๐ฌ How Does Drinking Rapidly Quench Thirst?
๐๏ธ Tuesday, October 13 | 3-4 PM
๐ yangtan.mit.edu/about-us/ourโฆ
Recap of the Alumni Talk Series: @NogaZaslavsky gave career advice at an intimate lunch with the Collective community and discussed her research ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ: ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป, ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐๐ฎ๐น๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐ ๐! ๐ฌ
Join us for the Yang Tan Collective Alumni Talk Series featuring Noga Zaslavsky, a former ICoN Postdoc Fellow; sheโs currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. โฌ๏ธ
๐ For more information, please visit: yangtan.mit.edu/about-us/ourโฆ
Former Yang ICoN Fellow and current assistant professor in the CMU School of Computer Science @aran_nayebi talks about neuroscience + AI in Does Compute, a podcast presented by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and GeekWire Studios.
youtube.com/watch?v=-U7S6lfTโฆ
A gene therapy developed by Guoping Feng & team at the Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research is now in clinical trials for Phelan-McDermid syndrome. In this talk at the @Phelan_McDermid Family Conference, Feng shares the science behind the therapy โฌ๏ธ
๐๐บ bit.ly/4xyDz7M
Watch K. Lisa Yang ICoN Graduate Fellow Davy Deng discuss the topic of mind-uploading (or whole brain emulation) and how C. elegans, a 1 mm worm with an impressive resume, contributes to it in his TEDxMIT talk โWhat does mind-uploading actually require?โ
youtube.com/watch?v=gyDwkCBKโฆ
Yang Tan Collective co-founder Hock Tan was recently featured as a prominent leader in TIMEโs list of 100 Most Influential People in AI (TIME100 AI 2026). Congratulations! ๐
๐ Read more about his work and partnerships: time.com/collection/time100-โฆ
Ming Liu, a Yang ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow, imaged a cell's ultrastructure with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to be able to view essential organelles.
๐ฌ Wang lab and Dorkenwald lab at MIT + Lee lab at HMS. Images were created together w/ Liu and a Harvard grad studentโฌ๏ธ
What if we could engineer scientific revolutions rather than wait for them to happen? Yang Tan Collectiveโs @eboyden3 and Denisa Lepadatu explore a provocative new model for accelerating discovery in their Substack article.
๐ Read more: uniconq.substack.com/p/the-gโฆ
Ed Boyden & his team, including Zeguan Wang ('25-'26 J. Douglas Tan Postdoc Fellow), invented a microscope that can capture high-res images of a brainโs electrical impulses from individual neuronsโallowing researchers to further study how the brain works in varied situations. โฌ๏ธ
๐ read more: yangtan.mit.edu/news-storiesโฆ
๐ read the study: Voltage imaging of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish; nature.com/articles/s41592-0โฆ
Image courtesy of the researchers
Co-authors @amoswinter and Vijay Govindarajan introduce & discuss their new book ๐๐น๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป (released on August 11 ๐) on @HarvardBiz IdeaCast; โThe Innovation Strategy Most Companies Missโ ep 1091.
๐ง Listen: hbr.org/podcast/2026/08/the-โฆ
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