Langer wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Award honors one engineer’s global impact on human health.
Department
Biological Engineering
New faculty in engineering
Twelve new faces join six academic departments in the School of Engineering.
Biology, driven by data
Newly tenured biological engineer Ernest Fraenkel goes where the numbers lead.
Meet the 2015 MIT Siebel Scholars
Graduate students in computer science, bioengineering, and business honored.
Study details a link between inflammation and cancer
Timing of inflammation determines whether potentially cancerous mutations may arise.
MIT team enlarges brain samples, making them easier to image
New technique enables nanoscale-resolution microscopy of large biological specimens.
Inspiring a new generation of innovators
Andrew Viterbi ’56, SM ’57 has been a pioneer in wireless communications for more than half a century.
Undaunted by the unknown
Senior Katie Bodner thrives in synthetic biology, where guidelines are just being established.
From drinking from the firehose to playing in the pool
Lita Nelsen ’64, SM ’66, SM ’79 finally makes good on a longstanding MIT-student requirement.
Computer model enables design of complex DNA shapes
Engineers computer-design the most complicated 3-D structures ever made from DNA.
New device could make large biological circuits practical
Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable effects.
Bacteria become “genomic tape recorders”
Engineered E. coli can store long-term memories of chemical exposure, other events in their DNA.
A double-edged sword
An enzyme key to DNA repair can worsen tissue damage caused by stroke and organ transplantation.