Merging machine learning and the life sciences
Through computing, senior and Marshall Scholar Anna Sappington seeks answers to biological questions.
Through computing, senior and Marshall Scholar Anna Sappington seeks answers to biological questions.
Grantees will spend the 2019-2020 academic year pursuing research and teaching opportunities abroad.
Book by MIT professor examines the circuitous history behind the investigation of cancer as a contagious illness.
A study of prostate cancer finds “aneuploid” tumors are more likely to be lethal than tumors with normal chromosome numbers.
Convergence research at MIT and beyond seeks new solutions for global challenges.
Algorithm stitches multiple datasets into a single “panorama,” which could provide new insights for medical and biological studies.
Mutation in disease model flies undermines maintenance of key ion balance.
Data-sampling method makes “sketches” of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types.
Faculty members Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
Eight biology contestants get one slide and three minutes to explain their research and impress their listeners.
Drawn to MIT by its “amazing women who were doing science,” Professor Laura Kiessling explores sugar-protein interactions that influence cell behavior.
The substance that bathes tumors in the body is quite different from the medium used to grow cancer cells in the lab, biologists report.
Study finds shallow bodies of water were probably more suitable for Earth’s first life forms.
Professor Gerald Fink, a pioneer in the field of genetics, delivers the annual Killian Lecture.
MIT alumnus, now a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Penn State University, is an expert on enzyme reactions.