Yang Tan Collective

@YangTanColl

Embedded within MIT & Harvard Medical School, the Collective accelerates science & engineering collaborations that improve human well-being globally.

Joined September 2025

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What if our genes don't contain a blueprint for the brain, but instead a recipe for building one? In an essay for @_TheTransmitter, neuroscientist Ila Fiete, director of the Yang ICoN Center, challenges conventional thinking about how the brain develops.

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www.thetransmitter.org The genome offers a recipe, not a blueprint, for the brain During brain development, genes set the rules and turn the knobs; self-organization does much of the rest.

Yang Tan Collective @YangTanColl Nov 2

Read Ed Boyden's @eboyden3 newest Substack post, where he discusses how applied laziness can help advance, and even solve, the hard problems you’re working on. ⬇️

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engineeringx.substack.com The Principle of Applied Laziness If a problem is too hard, sometimes the best thing to do is quit. But what should you do next?

Yang Tan Collective @YangTanColl Oct 30

(1/2) Across the Yang Tan Collective at MIT, Harvard, and Cambridge, UK, scientists are investigating many parts of the body to improve lives worldwide. Some are featured in the diagram below! ⬇️

Yang Tan Collective @YangTanColl Oct 30

A new study from the Yang Center for Bionics has shown the successful first results from an ongoing clinical trial that evaluates measuring muscle movement with implanted magnets, known as magnetomicrometry, in participants with below-knee amputations.

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yangtan.mit.edu Magnetic sensors track muscle movement, for better prosthetic limb control - MIT Yang Tan Collective MIT researchers have shown that they can accurately track muscle movement using tiny magnetic beads implanted in the muscle. These measurements could make it easier for people with certain types of...

Yang Tan Collective @YangTanColl Oct 27

Feng Zhang, co-director of the Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience at MIT, discusses with Nature Reviews Chemistry his life in science – what inspired his career path, what guides his research, and what’s next for him.

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www.nature.com Discussions with the gene editor Nature Reviews Chemistry - Ahead of his 45th birthday, Feng Zhang, James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discussed his life in science.