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Yosuke Bando, Fei Chen, Dawen Cai, Ed Boyden and Young Gyu
MIT researchers, including Professor Ed Boyden, created tiny 3D photonic devices with features small enough to channel visible light.
Professor Ed Boyden joins Neuroscience and Beyond to discuss optogenetics, expansion microscopy, and consciousness.
Sam Rodriques, alum of the Synthetic Neurobiology research group, is recognized in the Innovators category of TIME100 AI 2025.
FutureHouse, co-founded by Sam Rodriques PhD ’19, has developed AI agents to automate key steps on the path toward scientific progress.
The study, co-authored by Ed Boyden, finds stimulating key brain rhythms with light + sound could drive clearance of an Alzheimer’s protein.
Former Labbers Honghao Deng and Sarah Sclarsic served as judges in the Manufacturing & Industry and Energy categories.
Jorg Scholvin talks to MIT News about his range of experiences at MIT, including current work as an assistant director at MIT.nano.
Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time.
New molecule for imaging calcium in neurons reduces crosstalk from neighboring neurons.
Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases.
Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress."
A new method for sequencing the genome of an intact single cell may help researchers understand how key autism genes are regulated.
Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors.
The award recognizes outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography.
With the help of flashing lights and materials used in diapers, we could find out what thoughts are made of.
Named for one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society, the Croonian Medal and Lecture is the premier lecture in biological sciences.
The Warren Alpert Foundation honors scientists whose work has improved the understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of human disease.
Faculty members Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Boyden’s research creates and applies technologies that aim to expand our understanding of the brain.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars.
A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.
Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
Ed Boyden, Ernst Bamberg, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck, and Georg Nagel awarded one of America's oldest science prizes.
A new fly-through of the fly brain allows anyone to whizz past neurons and visit any of the 40 million synapses where neurons touch neuron.
Ed Boyden and collaborators combine expansion microscopy with lattice light-sheet microscopy to capture detailed images of the brain.
New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
Some say bigger is better, but researchers at MIT will tell you that when it comes to tech, smaller things are far more impressive.
The technique, known as “implosion fabrication,” can be used to create nearly any shape imaginable.
Boyden is certainly a wellspring of innovative ideas—but more than this, he is a scientific pioneer.
Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.
The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.
Neuroscientist Ed Boyden discussing two inventions of his that have revolutionized neuroscience: optogenetics and expansion microscopy.
MIT faculty members are among 19 top scientists selected from across the nation.
Because the funding has no strings attached, HHMI investigators are free to pursue their wildest scientific ideas.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
How do we, in . . . studying the brain . . . match the complexity of the brain itself?
In response to questions being raised about the relationships of Professor Ed Boyden and MIT with the company Nectome, the MIT Media Lab is…
MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.
Celebrating Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the Media Lab's brain research
A powerful tool to excite neurons using light is helping researchers to map the brain’s connections.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows honors those who have made out…
2018 Canada Gairdner International Awardee “for the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms, and for the discovery of optogenetics"
Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.
Ed Boyden together with MIT colleagues Yet Ming Chiang and Ian W. Hunter have been named to the 2017 class of Fellows of the National…
I think we ought to integrate the maps of the brain, the dynamics of the brain, and the ability to control the brain into single coherent d…
Focused laser beam could help scientists map connections among neurons that underlie behavior
Awards support high-risk, high-impact biomedical research.
Fluorescent sensor allows imaging of neurons' electrical communications, without electrodes
New “expansion pathology” technique lets optical microscopes go where only electrons could go before.
Success rate is comparable to that of highly trained scientists performing the process manually
Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, interviews Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
Patch clamping, a method that allows scientists to study the electrical activity of single cells, is one of the oldest tools in the neurosc…
A team of neuroscientists and engineers has devised a method that might achieve the best of both worlds: skipping the surgery while reachin