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Alana Down Syndrome Center For questions about our scientific programs: Rosalind Mott Firenze Scientific Program Director Technology to Improve Ability program Rana Gupta Director, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Giving…
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Innovations to Improve Quality of Life The mission of the TTIA program is to commercialize technology that will improve the quality of life for people with Down Syndrome and other…
About Down Syndrome
In 1958, following advances in genetic research, the British scientist Pat Jacobs and French scientist Jérôme Lejeune discovered the syndrome’s chromosomal cause. This is when DS started being recognized as…
MIT & Alana Statement
The progress achieved over the past few decades has been astounding. For example, we have developed artificial intelligence and created sustainable and efficient energy alternatives. We have also taken significant…
Alana Gift to MIT Launches Down Syndrome Research Center
In addition to multidisciplinary research across neuroscience, biology, engineering, and computer science labs, the gift will fund a four-year program with MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation called “Technology to…
Mapping the brain at high resolution
The new technology combines a method for expanding brain tissue, making it possible to image at higher resolution, with a rapid 3-D microscopy technique known as lattice light-sheet microscopy. In…
New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute
This technique, which can be performed using a simple light microscope, could allow neuroscientists to visualize the activity of circuits within the brain and link them to specific behaviors, says…