Cells as living calculators
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.
Department
Biology
Study IDs key protein for cell death
Findings may offer a new way to kill cancer cells by forcing them into an alternative programmed-death pathway.
Four MIT professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Field, Kac, Vogan and Walker bring to 76 the number of Institute faculty who are NAS members.
Two MIT professors named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
Peter Reddien and Aviv Regev are among 27 top biomedical scientists selected nationwide.
How to minimize the side effects of cancer treatment
Measuring enzyme levels in patients may reveal healthy cells’ ability to survive chemotherapy.
Researchers reverse Fragile X Syndrome symptoms in adult mice
Picower Institute neuroscientists use single dose of experimental drug; could prove promising for treatment of autism symptoms.
3 Questions: MIT biologist on new resveratrol study
Link between the compound found in red wine and anti-aging protein offers support for drug efforts, Leonard Guarente says.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
How human language could have evolved from birdsong
Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech.
Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production
Yeast research takes a step toward production of alternatives to gasoline.
Duflo, Lander, Lewin to lead spring-semester MITx courses
EdX takes stock of last semester’s MITx courses; data will be used to improve education online and in the classroom.
Cardiac development needs more than protein-coding genes
Biologists find that long non-coding RNA molecules are necessary to regulate differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac cells.
Science students hold design-thinking workshop
Program aims to help students gain perspective on new methodologies, improve overall research skills.