Mark Bear is Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Bear
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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People with the syndrome, caused by variants in the gene PTEN, often have autism or cancer, or both, but it depends on the genetic diversity encoded in the components of distinct cell signaling pathways, according to a new study.

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Cells in the bogong moth brain respond to astral landmarks to orient the insects in the direction they need to go.