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Glenn Foundation gift to MIT to fund multiple research initiatives on how we age

New center will incorporate research on the study of aging in the Department of Biology, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

June 25, 2015

In this illustration, phagemid plasmids infect a targeted bacteria.

Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria

Engineered particles are capable of producing toxins that are deadly to targeted bacteria.

June 25, 2015

Social enterprises empower communities

MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.

June 23, 2015

Powering desalination with the sun

PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.

June 22, 2015

In the process called initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD), Heated wires (pink cylinders) cause “initiator” molecules (red) to split, and they then interact with the monomers (purple) used for coating, causing them to collect on the cooler surface below, where they react to form a polymer chain as they build up in a uniform coating (bottom right).

Explained: chemical vapor deposition

Technique enables production of pure, uniform coatings of metals or polymers, even on contoured surfaces.

June 19, 2015

Dean Ian A. Waitz and graduate student Joel Paulson

School of Engineering awards for 2015

Awards were given to outstanding faculty, and graduate, and undergraduate students.

June 18, 2015

Recalling happier memories can reverse depression

Artificially reactivating positive memories could offer an alternative to traditional antidepressants.

June 17, 2015

Seeking rare cells

Christopher Love uses microscale technology to isolate rare cells, yielding insight into human disease.

June 17, 2015

The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, a common cause of pneumonia,can damage DNA in lung cells, a new study shows.

Pneumonia found to harm DNA in lung cells

Hydrogen peroxide produced by some bacteria causes DNA double-strand breaks, cell suicide.

June 15, 2015

Polymer material produced by a 3-D printer includes soft, flexible material (clear or lighter tone) with particles of hard material (black) embedded, in predetermined arrangements. When the material is compressed, its surface become bumpy in a pattern determined by the hard particles.

Surfaces get smooth or bumpy on demand

MIT research produces soft material with controllable surface textures that can be varied by squeezing.

June 11, 2015

Illustration: DNA-like double helix with lines of 1s and 0s on it

Longstanding problem put to rest

Proof that a 40-year-old algorithm is the best possible will come as a relief to computer scientists.

June 10, 2015

Caitlin Mackey, Margaret Guo, Sarah Wright

Three Engineers earn Capital One Academic All-America women’s at-large awards

June 10, 2015

MIT Corporation elects new members

Eight term members will each serve five years on MIT’s board of trustees.

June 4, 2015

A new technique tunes friction between two surfaces, to the point where friction can vanish. MIT researchers developed a frictional interface at the atomic level. The blue corrugated surface represents an optical lattice; the red balls represent ions; the springs between them represent Coulomb forces between ions. By tuning the spacing of the ion crystal surface above to mismatch the bottom corrug...

Vanishing friction

In tuning friction to the point where it disappears, technique could boost development of nanomachines.

June 4, 2015

Early-response genes, which are important for synaptic plasticity, are “switched off” under basal conditions by topological constraints. Neuronal activity triggers DNA breaks in a subset of early-response genes, which overrides these topological constraints, and “switches on” gene expression. Shown here is the topological constraint to early-response genes represented as an open switch (le...

DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage

Process that allows brains to learn and remember also leads to degeneration with age.

June 4, 2015

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Glenn Foundation gift to MIT to fund multiple research initiatives on how we age

Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria

Social enterprises empower communities

Powering desalination with the sun

Explained: chemical vapor deposition

School of Engineering awards for 2015

Recalling happier memories can reverse depression

Seeking rare cells

Pneumonia found to harm DNA in lung cells

Surfaces get smooth or bumpy on demand

Longstanding problem put to rest

Three Engineers earn Capital One Academic All-America women’s at-large awards

MIT Corporation elects new members

Vanishing friction

DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage

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