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Improving Autistic Experiences in the Workplace: Key Factors and Actionable Steps - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Autistic adults have higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than non-autistic adults with and without disabilities. While previous work has highlighted factors specific to individuals and/or...

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(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.

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(2/2) These grants support interdisciplinary MIT teams focused on transformative ideas, technologies, and collaborations that break traditional boundaries to advance discovery in health and the life sciences.

Read more about the grant and all the funded projects: heals.mit.edu/mit-heals-se...

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

Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: The time for it is now 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 work together to generate…

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

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Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.

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...

YouTube video by International Centre for Theoretical Sciences The Emergence Of Modular Structure by Ila Fiete

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:
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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...

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(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 Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.

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/

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Dr Hugh Herr: Bionics and Beyond - Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior The AMI Procedure and Magneto Micrometry   This week I was honored to have back on my podcast, Dr Hugh Herr. Hugh is a bilateral below knee amputee and a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. H...

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/

Autism. Chronic pain. Rising colon cancer rates. New Harvard center explores urgent health problems. - The Boston Globe Harvard's new Brain-Body Center will dive deep into health issues that have stymied researchers.

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.

Mindfulness app helps reduce anxiety and stress in autistic adults, study finds New research indicates that a six-week self-guided mindfulness app helped autistic adults experience meaningful reductions in anxiety, stress, and negative emotions. The improvements remained stable e...

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.”

Everything everywhere all at once: Decision-making signals engage entire brain The findings, gleaned from the most comprehensive map yet of brain activity during decision-making in mice, show that the process is even more distributed than previously thought.

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

Nidhi Seethapathi She created a unified model of human movement for wearables and rehab devices.

Read for yourself the cool things she's doing: www.technologyreview.com/innovator/nidhi-seethapathi/

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.

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Image courtesy of Emily Robinson at Prescott Lab

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.

Expansion in situ genome sequencing links nuclear abnormalities to aberrant chromatin regulation Microscopy and genomics are used to characterize cell function, but approaches to connect the two types of information are lacking, particularly at subnuclear resolution. Here, we describe expansion i...

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.

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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...

This New Bionic Knee Is Changing the Game for Lower Leg Amputees Scientists have developed a prosthesis that is directly integrated with muscle and bone in order to improve movement

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...

Tissue-integrated bionic knee restores versatile legged movement after amputation Lower-extremity prostheses have evolved through mechanical redesigns that prioritize improved cyclic locomotion. However, this limited approach to limb restoration has precluded necessary progress tow...

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/...