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At left, cells glow red to indicate that the detection system has been successfully delivered. The system was designed to produce green fluorescence in cells carrying a viral DNA sequence, as seen at right.

Targeting DNA

Protein-based sensor could detect viral infection or kill cancer cells.

September 21, 2015

Young Fellows John Arroyo, Or Gadish, Steven Keating, Iris Zielski, Mitali Thakor, William Li, and Georgia Lagoudas

Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years

New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.

May 29, 2015

This scanning electron micrograph depicts spores of Bacillus anthracis bacteria magnified to more than 12,000 times their actual size.

Chemists recruit anthrax to deliver cancer drugs

With some tinkering, a deadly protein becomes an efficient carrier for antibody drugs.

September 24, 2014

Biotech to the rescue

Ram Sasisekharan’s startups provide novel methods to fight disease and make better drugs.

April 26, 2014

MIT’s Synthetic Biology Center collaborates with Pfizer to advance synthetic biology research in drug discovery and development

February 20, 2014

Illustration of a human head and neck with the esophagus highlighted

Pills of the future: nanoparticles

Researchers design drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken orally

November 27, 2013

Robert C. Armstrong will be the new director of the MIT Energy Initiative.

Robert C. Armstrong named director of MIT Energy Initiative

Outgoing director Ernest Moniz confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Energy.

May 16, 2013

Abudayyeh named a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow

2012 alumnus will use fellowship to support his studies in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program.

March 27, 2013

Ernest Moniz, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems and director of the MIT Energy Initiative.

MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of Energy

President Obama’s pick is head of the MIT Energy Initiative and a former undersecretary of energy.

March 4, 2013

Micrograph shows a group of <i>Ralstonia eutropha</i> bacteria in culture. In their natural form, as seen here, the microbes convert carbon in their surrounding into a kind of bioplastic — seen as the light-colored dots inside their membranes. But a biologically engineered version developed at MIT instead produces isobutanol fuel, which is then expelled from the cells into the surrounding medium...

Teaching a microbe to make fuel

Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.

August 21, 2012

Inside an innovation ecosystem

History, proximity and serendipity make Kendall Square fertile ground for the next big idea.

November 22, 2011

The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research building was official dedicated on March 4. The building houses engineers and life scientists under one roof.

David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research feted

MIT celebrates the official opening of the institute's new building.

March 8, 2011

MIT chemical engineers have shown that some populations of yeast engineered to produce drugs secrete large quantities of the drug, while others lag behind, even though the yeast are genetically identical.

Slackers and superstars of the microbial workplace

MIT chemical engineers find that yeast engineered to manufacture drugs vary widely in their productivity

March 26, 2010

Winners of the 2008 Biocant Ventures Prize from the MIT Portugal Program's Bio-Teams, from left: researcher John Jones and students David Malta, Mariana Fernandes and Tatiana Aguiar.

MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition

Invention could help diagnose muscle wasting

July 23, 2008

Professor Linda Griffith admires the way that Course 20 graduating seniors Lissa Riley, Mike Yee, and and Andrzej Wojcieszynski meld their knowledge of thermodynamics and laboratory savvy to derive festive experiments in celebration of the first graduating class of biological engineers.

Wave of the future: MIT to graduate first class of biological engineering majors

June 2, 2008

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