Monthly Archives: August 2015


[Source: MIT News, August 27, 2015] In 2011, MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe and colleagues reported that in blind adults, brain regions normally dedicated to vision processing instead participate in language tasks such as speech and comprehension. Now, in a study of blind children, Saxe’s lab has found that this transformation occurs […]

Young brains can take on new functions. Visual cortex of ...


[Source: broadinstitute.org, August 27, 2015] In a paper published today in Cell researchers from the Broad Institute and University of Tokyo revealed the crystal structure of theStaphylococcus aureus Cas9 complex (SaCas9)—a highly efficient enzyme that overcomes one of the primary challenges to in vivo mammalian genome editing. Read more…

Zhang lab unlocks crystal structure of new CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing ...