Biologists identify brain tumor weakness
Discovery could offer a new target for treatment of glioblastoma.
Department
Biology
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.
Forbes hails MIT standouts in science, education, energy, technology, and health care
11 MIT affiliates and more than 30 alumni are identified as movers, makers, and game changers in their respective fields.
In a body that rebels, the search for a delicate balance
Rhodes Scholar Elliot Akama-Garren seeks to harness the power of the immune system to combat cancer.
Proteins drive cancer cells to change states
When RNA-binding proteins are turned on, cancer cells get locked in a proliferative state.
Seeking answers from a mysterious parasite
Newly tenured biologist Jeroen Saeij wants to know what makes Toxoplasma gondii so unpredictable.
Two MIT seniors and an alumnus named Rhodes Scholars
Elliot Akama-Garren ’15, Anisha Gururaj ’15, and Noam Angrist ’13 are among 32 winners nationwide.
Herman Eisen, professor emeritus of biology, dies at 96
Eisen was a pioneering immunologist and longstanding member of MIT’s cancer research community.