Monthly Archives: April 2025


New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds to growing evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness. Source: [Anne Trafton | MIT News, April 7, 2025] Immune molecules called cytokines play important roles in the body’s defense against infection, helping to control inflammation and coordinating the responses of other immune […]

Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain, inducing ...


Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery. Source: Anne Trafton | MIT News | April 2, 2025 As a young girl growing up in the former Soviet Union, Evelina Fedorenko PhD ’07 studied several languages, including English, as her mother hoped […]

Looking under the hood at the brain’s language system