Tasting light
Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light.
Department
Biology
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.
Piecing together molecular machines
Newly tenured biologist Iain Cheeseman explores the complex structures that control cell division.
A double-edged sword
An enzyme key to DNA repair can worsen tissue damage caused by stroke and organ transplantation.
Fast modeling of cancer mutations
New genome-editing technique enables rapid analysis of genes mutated in tumors.
Martial arts and medical outreach
Senior Christina Lalani applies lessons she learned from karate to global health disparities.
Getting metabolism right
Analysis of 89 models of metabolic processes finds flaws in 44 of them — but suggests corrections.