Tania Baker steps down as head of the Department of Biology
Alan Grossman to serve as interim department head
Alan Grossman to serve as interim department head
Highest honor for MIT faculty members goes to pioneer of research on ocean’s photosynthetic organisms.
Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought.
Nanoparticles that stagger delivery of two drugs knock out aggressive tumors in mice.
Acemoglu, Brown, Grossman, and Grove bring to 77 the number of MIT faculty who are NAS members.
MIT research sheds light on how mice "think" when they retrieve correct memories and notice their mistakes.
From Boston to Bangalore, MIT senior Priyanka Saha uses technology to empower people with disabilities.
Test analyzing cells’ ability to fix different kinds of broken DNA could help doctors predict cancer risk.
A look back at how Institute Professor Phillip Sharp, his startup Biogen, and MIT’s biotech community helped revive Kendall Square.
Sequencing of cancer cell genomes reveals potential new drug targets for an aggressive type of lung cancer.
Michael Hemann seeks better ways to deploy chemotherapy drugs and overcome tumor resistance.
Biologists identify extracellular proteins that help aggressive tumors spread through the body.
Study reveals immune cells that are critical to combating the parasite in early stages of infection.
Scientists discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes.
Pioneer in gene regulation transformed MIT’s Department of Biology as department head from 1967 to 1977.