Feng Zhang receives 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award
Broad/MIT scientist among five honored as pioneers of CRISPR-Cas9 system.
Broad/MIT scientist among five honored as pioneers of CRISPR-Cas9 system.
Genome-editing pioneer Feng Zhang hopes his work will shed light on neurological disorders.
Unique galaxy offers clues to the extreme conditions that yield the heavies of the periodic table.
Theoretical proof could lead to more reliable nanomachines.
Santiago Herrera studies the genome to establish new connections between species living in the deep sea.
Study finds bursts of neural activity as the brain holds information in mind, overturns a long-held model.
Synthesizing new physics: Assistant professor blends materials science and solid state physics to uncover new properties linked to collective behavior of electrons.
New projects emphasize using digital methods not possible in traditional classes, leveraging research-based teaching practices, and measuring student learning.
Neuroscientists retrieve missing memories in mice with early Alzheimer’s symptoms.
Cancer cells remodel their environment to make it easier to reach nearby blood vessels.
Senior YQ Lu finds new ways to combine math and paper art, shares his passion for both.
Larger set of translations may shed light on an idiosyncratic Amazonian language.
Scientists surprised to find amino acids, not sugar, supply most building blocks for tumor cells.
Devadas, Grossman, Sipser, and Tang awarded MIT’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way.