Frontiers for Young Minds is an open-access scientific journal for kids. Read it here:
🔗 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2026.1784155
In a new Frontiers for Young Minds article, Y. Eva Tan Professor Ed Boyden explains optogenetics 🔆🧠 This article was edited with young reviewers, Elizabeth (age 13) and Klara (age 13), who provided feedback to ensure their peers and young audiences could understand the article.
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(2/2) The symposium also showcased the next generation of researchers, with a dozen trainees presenting their innovative work during a lively poster session.
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Ila Fiete, MIT; Fenna Krienen, Princeton University; attendees during break
(2/2) These findings are reshaping our understanding of human immunity’s ancient origins and revealing a vast reservoir of biological strategies refined through billions of years of evolution.
Congratulations to Yang ICoN fellow Andrea de Varda @andreadevarda.bsky.social, who has been named a winner of the prestigious Glushko Dissertation Prize! 👏👏
🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-dissertation-prize/
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(1/2) More than 150 scientists attended the 2026 Yang ICoN Center Symposium hosted by Ila Fiete on May 21. Eight leading faculty shared insights on how neural structure and function emerge during development, spanning both experimental and theoretical perspectives.
Congratulations to Carolina Warneryd and Duncan Lee of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics on their success at the 2026 MIT Mechanical Engineering De Florez Awards! 👏👏
🔗 www.media.mit.edu/posts/two-biomechatronics-researchers-are-among-the-winners-of-de-florez-awards-at-mexpo-2026/
(1/2) A fascinating @science.org feature highlights the breadth of newly identified bacterial defense systems, including groundbreaking work from the Yang Tan Collective led by Feng Zhang.
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