An enduring legacy of education and opportunity
The Khorana Program at MIT enables young Indian scientists to thrive.
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Biology
Tyler Jacks receives MIT’s Killian Award
Cancer biologist and Koch Institute director recognized with MIT faculty’s top honor.
Biology professor Michael Laub named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Five-year appointment will support research on how cells regulate their behavior in response to an external environment.
Researchers identify new target for anti-malaria drugs
Manipulating the permeability of a type of vacuole could help defeat malarial parasites.
Discovery science is reinventing the world
How discovery science is reinventing the worldMIT innovators take a close look at how basic science research leads to applications, new companies, jobs, and economic growth.
Biologists identify brain tumor weakness
Discovery could offer a new target for treatment of glioblastoma.
From the heart
Laurie Boyer’s studies of stem cell differentiation could improve treatments for heart disease.
Four professors named 2015 MacVicar Fellows
Bahr, Drennan, Gibson, and Sive receive the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
Chisholm sees big impacts from small sources
Discoverer of world’s most abundant and prolific photosynthetic organism delivers annual Killian Lecture.
Interdisciplinary medicine
Senior Yiping Xing’s view of health care draws upon research, public health, and policy.
Tasting light
Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light.
From fiction to science
Peter Reddien believes human stem cells could one day be regulated to replace aged, damaged, and missing tissues.
A week at MIT
Workshop on quantitative methods in biology draws diverse undergrads from across the country.