Researchers identify new target for anti-malaria drugs
Manipulating the permeability of a type of vacuole could help defeat malarial parasites.
Department
Biology
Discovery science is reinventing the world
How discovery science is reinventing the world
MIT 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.
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.