Biologists identify new targets for cancer vaccines
Vaccinating against certain proteins found on cancer cells could help to enhance the T cell response to tumors.
Vaccinating against certain proteins found on cancer cells could help to enhance the T cell response to tumors.
This year’s projects address mobile evaporative vegetable preservation, portable water filtration, and dairy waste reduction.
Schimmel Family Program for Life Sciences will benefit graduate students and research.
At the MIT Edgerton Center, educators are quietly transforming the way biology is taught in schools.
Through a summer research program at MIT, Patricia Pujols explored the neuromuscular junction, and a future in science.
Twelve professors begin in the departments of Biology; Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.
MiniPCR bio has sold thousands of its inexpensive polymerase chain reaction machines to researchers and schools around the world.
Professors will help guide school-level initiatives and strategy.
Researchers find three immunotherapy drugs given together can eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice.
Roundworms change the flow of material in and out of their mouths in response to bright light, revealing a new way for neurons to control muscle cells.
Graduate student Ellen Zhong helped biologists and mathematicians reach across departmental lines to address a longstanding problem in electron microscopy.
By making the microbes more tolerant to toxic byproducts, researchers show they can use a wider range of feedstocks, beyond corn.
PhD student Sarah Nyquist applies computational methods to understudied areas of reproductive health, such as the cellular composition of breast milk.
Professor Laurie Boyer studies cardiac development, and how we might be able to mend broken hearts.
Natasha Joglekar ’21 is eager to apply her MIT education, with a major in computer science and biology and a minor in women’s and gender studies, to a career in medical research.