Yang Tan Collective
@YangTanColl
Followers
10
Following
33
Media
38
Statuses
74
Embedded within MIT & Harvard Medical School, the Collective accelerates science & engineering collaborations that improve human well-being globally.
Joined September 2025
📚 https://t.co/yVOHWZw0Vz 🎁 Next week will be our final 3 gifts! If you have any guesses for Gift #3 (or the last two), drop them below!!
news.mit.edu
Two newly discovered brain pathways appear to relay emotional information that helps to shape the motivation to take action. The pathways arise in the striatum and connect to dopamine-producing...
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: Did you guess Day 4’s gift? I won’t leave you hanging, its… 4 distinct neural pathways interact with the brain’s striatum region in order to finely tune dopamine levels to motivate or inhibit action. 📚⬇️ Link to read it below
1
0
0
What if aging didn’t have to mean a weaker immune system? 🧬🛡️ @zhangf & researchers in the Yang Brain-Body Center have found a way to reawaken immune strength. 🔗 Read the article about the study: https://t.co/zOn8lFWTkP
0
0
0
📚 Read it here: https://t.co/dAWVMggEfH 🎁 Take a guess for the next research throwback coming from the Yang tan Collective!
news.mit.edu
MIT engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations in sunlight throughout the day. Because it requires no extra batteries, it...
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: Today’s gift comes from the GEAR Center! 5 times per second: the Yang GEAR Center’s solar-powered desalination platform senses and responds to changing sunlight as often as 300 times per minute, maximizing efficiency in real time. ⬇️
1
0
0
📚 For a more in-depth reading, check out the paper in the Advanced Materials Journal: “Multifunctional Neural Probes Enable Bidirectional Electrical, Optical, and Chemical Recording and Stimulation In Vivo” https://t.co/mbuvHuy0ls
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Convergence drawing is used to create flexible, microscale, multifunctional fiber-based neural probes. Optimized materials selection enables individual devices to perform neural recording, electric...
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: For Day 6, we have: 6 distinct functions are integrated in a single hair-thin fiber developed by Polina Anikeeva’s group! Read what the functions are in the graphics ⬇️
1
0
0
📚 Read more about this 2025 ICoN Center study:
news.mit.edu
MIT McGovern Institute researchers find a surprising parallel in the ways humans and new AI models solve complex problems.
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: we posted about this one recently! Gift #7 is… 7 tasks, from simple arithmetic to complex grid-transformation problems, required the same amount of thinking by both humans and a computational model to reach a solution! ⬇️ article below
1
0
0
Learn more about the goals of these centers & the amazing people doing research there: 🌟 Yang Tan Collective at MIT: https://t.co/oUrTpz8hc5 🌟Yang Tan Collective at Harvard:
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: what does the Yang Tan Collective boast eight of? Gift #8 is—of course—the EIGHT centers!! 🧑🔬🧠 Can you name all eight?
1
0
0
📚 Read more about this amazing discovery: https://t.co/HS1y5rxdbx 🎁 Gift #8’s pretty easy to guess…comment if you think you know it!
news.mit.edu
MIT scientists have uncovered ancient systems with potential to expand the genome editing toolbox. These tandem interspaced guide RNA (TIGR) systems use RNA to guide them to specific sites on DNA.
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: Gift #9 🧬🧰 9 tiny units of genetic code make up each part of the TIGR guide RNA. These TIGR systems, discovered by Feng Zhang’s lab, are biological tools that can be reprogrammed to target any DNA sequence of interest!
1
0
0
Yang ICoN Center's @ev_fedorenko spoke with @QuantaMagazine about her research, which shows how our brains parse language with LLM-like efficiency! She’s working with ICoN postdoc @devarda_a, using multilingual neural-network models to map how the brain understands languages. ⬇️
1
0
0
These future clinicians are poised to become Sierra Leone’s first cohort of orthotics and prosthetics professionals and to reshape disability care nationwide! 📚 Do some light reading by learning more about this amazing program:
yangtan.mit.edu
0
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: what will Gift #10 have in store for us today? That’s right! It’s 10 future clinicians who are advancing through the Yang Center for Bionics training program! 🥼🦿 The featured picture shows a few trainees receiving their white coats 👏
1
0
0
Twelve Days of Yang Tan Collective: did you guess Gift #11? It’s… 11 ICoN Center Postdoctoral Fellows who are tomorrow’s leaders in computational neuroscience! 🧠Learn more about these iconic ICoN fellows at https://t.co/k1ba3OlJ1P 🎁 Any guesses for Gift #10?
0
0
0
Did you know the Yang Tan Collective at Harvard has two amazing centers that collaborate with two of the Yang Tan Collective at MIT centers? Learn more about the Yang Tan Collective at Harvard at:
0
0
0
Happy December☃️✨! Join us as we celebrate the Collective’s amazing people, centers, & research! (I know the song starts off with 1 gift, but it’s ok if we start off with 12, right?) 🎁#12, we have: 12 @harvardmed faculty members! Can you guess what Gift #11 might be?
1
0
0