Computer model enables design of complex DNA shapes
Engineers computer-design the most complicated 3-D structures ever made from DNA.
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MIT takes new approach with STEM concept videos
Real-life examples are relevant to MIT students and students around the world.
Transient contacts
Ibrahim Cissé is unraveling the mystery of DNA transcription, one molecule at a time.
Seeking answers from a mysterious parasite
Newly tenured biologist Jeroen Saeij wants to know what makes Toxoplasma gondii so unpredictable.
New device could make large biological circuits practical
Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable effects.
Two MIT seniors and an alumnus named Rhodes Scholars
Elliot Akama-Garren ’15, Anisha Gururaj ’15, and Noam Angrist ’13 are among 32 winners nationwide.
Chris Bourg named director of MIT Libraries
Longtime libraries administrator at Stanford tapped to lead MIT’s libraries and the MIT Press.
MIT Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative launches
Inaugural event, “Examining Ebola,” probes the current global public health emergency from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Hacking health care
PhD student Andrea Ippolito improves health care through engineering, entrepreneurship, and systems design.
Bose grants reward risk
Five innovative, high-risk projects launch with support from Prof. Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
Bacteria become “genomic tape recorders”
Engineered E. coli can store long-term memories of chemical exposure, other events in their DNA.
Herman Eisen, professor emeritus of biology, dies at 96
Eisen was a pioneering immunologist and longstanding member of MIT’s cancer research community.
MIT researchers to receive awards from the Society for Neuroscience
Three neuroscientists at MIT have been selected to receive awards from the Society for Neuroscience.
Striking the cord: Optical control of motor functions
Grad student Chi Lu and colleagues demonstrate a highly flexible polymer probe for triggering spinal-cord neurons with light and simultaneously recording their activity.
