At an exhibition marking two decades since a transformative gift from the Picower Foundation, current and alumni members described research at the forefront of neuroscience and beyond.
With only a little information, researchers can predict the circumstances under which an ecosystem will be stable or unstable.
Awards support high-risk, high-impact research from early-career investigators.
Payton Dupuis finds new scientific interests and career opportunities through MIT summer research program in biology.
Hynes and two other scientists will share the prize for their discoveries of proteins critical for cellular adhesion.
As an MSRP-Bio student in the Vander Heiden lab, Alejandra Rosario helped to reveal how cancer cells maintain access to materials they need to grow.
In a long-studied population of wandering albatrosses, females are less likely to stick with a shy mate.
A computational analysis reveals that many repetitive sequences are shared across proteins and are similar in species from bacteria to humans.
Stacy Springs named executive director; Richard Braatz is associate faculty director.
By tracking feedback during tasks, the anterior cingulate cortex notices when a new step has become necessary and signals the motor cortex to adjust.
The computational structural biology researcher continues to serve the department and the MIT life sciences community.
The peptide is used by legumes to control nitrogen-fixing bacteria; it may also offer leads for treating patients with too much heme in their blood.
Nerve cells regulate and routinely refresh the collection of calcium channels that enable them to send messages across circuit connections.
Alex Shalek’s technologies for single-cell RNA profiling can help dissect the cellular bases of complex diseases around the globe.
Their swirling, clustering behavior might someday inform the design of self-assembling robotic swarms.