MIT team receives $10.4 million biomanufacturing grant from DARPA
With the grant, MIT’s Biomanufacturing Research Program aims to develop new technologies that can rapidly manufacture biologic drugs on the battlefield.
Two MIT professors named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
Peter Reddien and Aviv Regev are among 27 top biomedical scientists selected nationwide.
The half-billion-dollar idea
While at MIT, alumnus Todd Zion developed an insulin product that ultimately drew the attention of a pharmaceutical giant.
Students have engineering on the brain
MIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.
MIT researchers improve quantum-dot performance
New production method could enable everything from more efficient computer displays to enhanced biomedical testing.
Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries
MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.
Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues
New design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.
Oscillating microscopic beads could be key to biolab on a chip
MIT team finds way to manipulate and measure magnetic particles without contact, potentially enabling multiple medical tests on a tiny device.
Four from MIT win NIH grants
Brown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research.
Madrid-MIT Consortium holds international conference in Madrid
Interdisciplinary dialogue among global leaders focuses on developing strong biomedical innovation ecosystems.
Toying with biological systems
By swapping microbial genes, Chris Voigt designs cells with novel functions.
MIT to launch Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Based in School of Engineering but spanning all of MIT, IMES will be led by Arup K. Chakraborty.
The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images.