Tasting light
Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light.
Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light.
Peter Reddien believes human stem cells could one day be regulated to replace aged, damaged, and missing tissues.
Workshop on quantitative methods in biology draws diverse undergrads from across the country.
11 MIT affiliates and more than 30 alumni are identified as movers, makers, and game changers in their respective fields.
Rhodes Scholar Elliot Akama-Garren seeks to harness the power of the immune system to combat cancer.
When RNA-binding proteins are turned on, cancer cells get locked in a proliferative state.
Newly tenured biologist Jeroen Saeij wants to know what makes Toxoplasma gondii so unpredictable.
Elliot Akama-Garren ’15, Anisha Gururaj ’15, and Noam Angrist ’13 are among 32 winners nationwide.
Eisen was a pioneering immunologist and longstanding member of MIT’s cancer research community.
Newly tenured biologist Iain Cheeseman explores the complex structures that control cell division.
An enzyme key to DNA repair can worsen tissue damage caused by stroke and organ transplantation.
New genome-editing technique enables rapid analysis of genes mutated in tumors.
Senior Christina Lalani applies lessons she learned from karate to global health disparities.
Analysis of 89 models of metabolic processes finds flaws in 44 of them — but suggests corrections.