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The researchers used structural knowledge of Cas9 to guide engineering of a highly specific genome-editing tool.

MIT, Broad scientists overcome key CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing hurdle

Team re-engineers system to dramatically cut down on editing errors; improvements advance future human applications.

December 1, 2015

Sean Perry, technical associate at the Picower Institute, dies at age 39

December 1, 2015

“There’s no way we can solve anything if we’re not actually speaking to each other,” says senior Alyssa Napier, a chemistry major and linguistics minor.

Senior Alyssa Napier dedicates herself to improving MIT

Chemistry major works to address social justice issues.

December 1, 2015

Daniel Rothman awarded math prize for work on Earth's carbon cycle

Professor of geophysics and co-director of the Lorenz Center at MIT honored with the 2016 American Mathematical Society Levi L. Conant Prize.

November 30, 2015

Josh Stillerman (left) and Bob Mumgaard help guide conference attendee Deedee Ortiz through virtual rooms of a 3-D tokamak fusion device.

Sharing fusion research with 3-D, video games, and comics

Members of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center wow colleagues, students, and teachers with a 3-D tour of the Institute's nuclear fusion experiment.

November 30, 2015

When zebra finches first begin to sing, they produce only nonsense syllables similar to the babble of human babies. Now researchers at MIT have uncovered the brain activity that supports the birds’ song-learning process.

Singing in the brain

Neuroscientists identify neural patterns birds use to learn their songs.

November 30, 2015

“I hope to embody the [Buddhist] values of compassion, mindfulness, and understanding in everything I do,” says Võ Tiến Phong, MIT’s newest Marshall Scholar.

New Marshall Scholar

MIT senior Võ Tiến Phong will study theoretical physics at Cambridge University.

November 25, 2015

MIT mathematicians have identified the limits to heat flow at the nanoscale.

An extreme close-up on heat transfer

New formula identifies limits to nanoscale heat transfer, may help optimize devices that convert heat to electricity.

November 24, 2015

Current and past recipients stand with President L. Rafael Reif and Vanu Bose, son of Amar Bose. (Left to right): Rajeev Ram, Janet Conrad, Jeffrey Grossman, Sangeeta Bhatia, Polina Anikeeva, Nicholas Makris, President Reif, Joel Voldman, Vanu Bose, Jacquin Niles, Joseph Checkelsky, Sara Seager, and Sylvia Ceyer.

Bose Grants fund bold and innovative visions

Four high-risk, high-reward projects launch with support from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

November 24, 2015

Henry Thomas Tizard (center), British physicist and head of the Tizard Mission, visits with MIT researchers. The 1940 Tizard Mission introduced to the U.S. the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, and helped establish MIT as a major federally funded research university.

How the Tizard Mission paved the way for research at MIT

Seventy-five years ago, an international meeting of scientific minds changed forever how MIT and other research institutions develop new technologies.

November 23, 2015