Creative abilities
From Boston to Bangalore, MIT senior Priyanka Saha uses technology to empower people with disabilities.
Department
Biology
Fast way to measure DNA repair
Test analyzing cells’ ability to fix different kinds of broken DNA could help doctors predict cancer risk.
How to build a biotech renaissance: MIT in Kendall Square
A look back at how Institute Professor Phillip Sharp, his startup Biogen, and MIT’s biotech community helped revive Kendall Square.
New view of tumors’ evolution
Sequencing of cancer cell genomes reveals potential new drug targets for an aggressive type of lung cancer.
Precision attack on cancer
Michael Hemann seeks better ways to deploy chemotherapy drugs and overcome tumor resistance.
How tumors escape
Biologists identify extracellular proteins that help aggressive tumors spread through the body.
How the immune system fights off malaria
Study reveals immune cells that are critical to combating the parasite in early stages of infection.
Ahoy! First ocean vesicles spotted
Scientists discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes.
Biologist Boris Magasanik dies at 94
Pioneer in gene regulation transformed MIT’s Department of Biology as department head from 1967 to 1977.
Hazel Sive steps down as associate dean of the School of Science
Biologist’s six-year administrative tenure focused on educational initiatives and on diversity and inclusiveness among faculty and postdocs.
Biologists find clues to a parasite’s inconsistency
Certain strains of Toxoplasma provoke inflammation that can damage host cells, while others are harmless.
Discovering hippocampal connections responsible for episodic memory
MIT neuroscientists map neural circuits involving the CA2 region of the hippocampus.
Unusual suspects
Computer models plus observations of RNA inside a cell help scientists home in on a short list of interesting RNA ‘machines.’
Homing in on stressed coral
Sulfurous chemical known as ‘smell of the sea’ serves as clarion call for coral pathogens.