Biological Engineering

Graduate student Mara Freilich shows MIT Museum Girls Day attendees how plastics and debris become trapped in a gyre.

This is what a scientist looks like

Researchers celebrate women in environmental sciences and engineering at the MIT Museum’s Girls Day.

April 3, 2018

Katharina Ribbeck joined the MIT faculty in 2010.

Exploring the many roles of mucus

Katharina Ribbeck studies the sticky substance to uncover its impacts on health and disease.

April 2, 2018

Ed Boyden is a recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.

March 27, 2018

A fascination with magic leads MIT Professor Robert Langer to solve world problems using the marvels of chemical engineering.

Featured video: Magical Bob

A fascination with magic leads Institute Professor Robert Langer to solve world problems using the marvels of chemical engineering.

March 27, 2018

MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 organs, allowing them to replicate human-organ interactions.

“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation

Human tissue samples linked by microfluidic channels replicate interactions of multiple organs.

March 14, 2018

Rheumatoid arthritis, which afflicts more than 1 million Americans, is an autoimmune disorder that produces swollen and painful joints, primarily affecting the wrists and hands.

New study solves an arthritis drug mystery

MIT biological engineers discover why a promising drug failed in clinical trials.

March 6, 2018

Y. Eva Tan (left) and McGovern investigator Edward Boyden (right)

Edward Boyden named inaugural Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology

Neuroengineering leader appointed to new professorship at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

March 5, 2018

Timothy Lu's early interest in computer programming was inspired by his father, who worked as an electrical engineer at IBM.

Timothy Lu seeks to combat disease by reprogramming biological systems

Synthetic biologist hopes to develop treatments for cancer and other diseases.

March 4, 2018

MIT researchers have developed a light-sensitive protein that can be embedded into neuron membranes, where it emits a fluorescent signal that indicates how much voltage a particular cell is experiencing. This could allow scientists to study how neurons behave, millisecond by millisecond, as the brain performs a particular function.

Seeing the brain's electrical activity

Fluorescent sensor allows imaging of neurons' electrical communications, without electrodes.

February 26, 2018

Exploring his depth of field

Photographer, poet, and PhD student in biological engineering Corban Swain pursues diverse interests with a keen eye.

February 21, 2018

Four faculty are among the 83 members and 16 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Four MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2018

New members have made advances in the development of plasticity, novel genetic evolution methods, systems modeling, and clean energy.

February 16, 2018

A collection of SHERLOCK paper test strips. (Left) Unused paper strips, (middle) paper tests displaying a negative SHERLOCK readout, and (right) paper tests displaying a positive SHERLOCK readout.

Researchers advance CRISPR-based tool for diagnosing disease

With SHERLOCK, a strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest.

February 15, 2018

Five cancer researchers make up the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine’s founding faculty. Left to right: Angela Koehler, Michael Hemann, Michael Yaffe (director), Forest White, and Matthew Vander Heiden.

Fine-tuning cancer medicine

New cancer research initiative eyes individualized treatment for patients.

February 1, 2018

From left to right: Polina Anikeeva, the Class of 1942 Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Feng Zhang, the James and Patricia Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute, a core member of the Broad Institute, and an associate professor in the departments of Brain and C...

Polina Anikeeva and Feng Zhang awarded 2018 Vilcek Prize

Prize recognizes contributions to biomedical research made by immigrant scientists.

February 1, 2018

Postdoc Kathryn Kauffman and former guest researcher Aidong Ruan process ocean water samples at Canoe Cove in Nahant, Massachusetts. The researchers were observing how microbial communities change over time in a particular location.

Microbial communities demonstrate high turnover

New research provides insight into the behavior of microbial communities in the ocean.

January 18, 2018

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