Watching how cells interact
New device allows scientists to glimpse communication between immune cells.
New device allows scientists to glimpse communication between immune cells.
Study reveals immune cells that are critical to combating the parasite in early stages of infection.
Certain strains of Toxoplasma provoke inflammation that can damage host cells, while others are harmless.
Mice with human immune cells help researchers discover how the mosquito-borne virus depletes blood platelets.
Biology professor Dennis Kim seeks to understand the physiology and evolution of host-microbe interactions by studying a simple worm.
Enlisted in the fight against HIV, MIT engineers and scientists contribute new technology, materials and computational studies.
Recognized by their peers for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
MIT biological engineers find that proteins in mucus help ward off viral infection.
New technology could help AIDS researchers develop new vaccines.
New discovery reveals why some forms of Toxoplasma are more dangerous than others.
Biologist Jeroen Saeij shows why some strains of Toxoplasma are more dangerous than others.
New findings from MIT biologists could help vaccine designers elicit long-term immunity.
Jennifer Lai, who is majoring in biological engineering and music and theater arts, is headed to Oxford.
Assistant professor honored for immunology work.
Biologist hopes to uncover new genetic risk factors for infectious disease as well as new therapies.