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Charles Vest, Robert Langer, and Daniel Kleppner

Three from MIT win top U.S. science, technology honors

July 16, 2007

Whitehead postdoctoral students Stuart Levine and Matthew Guenther

Team finds new mechanism of gene control

Further understanding might aid regenerative medicine, more

July 12, 2007

Eugene Bell, 'father of tissue engineering,' dies at 88

July 12, 2007

Neutrophils, a kind of white blood cell, are shown here (in pink) engulfing their targets (bacteria or fungi).

Killer cells may actually be picky eaters

July 11, 2007

Team reports genetic link between aging, neurodegenerative disorders

Work could lead to new drugs against Alzheimer's, more

July 9, 2007

This diagram shows how an engineered virus,T7, destroys a biofilm composed of E. coli bacteria.

Team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'

A big step forward for synthetic biology

July 6, 2007

MIT biology, physics and nuclear science professors honored

July 3, 2007

Team sheds light on cells' career path

Work could impact developmental biology, regenerative medicine

July 1, 2007

Team's model aids understanding of protein networks

Work could impact cancer research

June 25, 2007

Susumu Tonegawa, professor of biology at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory and Mansuo L. Hayashi, former Picower Center for Learning and Memory post-doc in Tonegawa's lab at MIT. They have reversed symptoms of retardation in mice due to Fragile X syndrome.

MIT locates key enzyme for reversing retardation in mice

'Elegant genetic manipulation' inhibits Fragile X symptoms

June 25, 2007

Dr. Leona Samson, Director, Center for Enviornmental Health Sciences, Daniel Znaty (Sloan School of Management graduate 2007) and Graduate Student Prize Winners: Dominika Wiktor-Brown, Alexandria Sams, and Paul Huang

CEHS awards Znaty research prizes

June 22, 2007

Buehler of CEE receives national engineering honor

June 21, 2007

MIT Corporation names new members at meeting

June 18, 2007

Biology professor Leonard Guarente, left, and postdoctoral associate Nicholas Bishop, in the lab where they have been studying longevity in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

MIT biologists link calorie restriction, endocrine function in worm longevity

Identifying neurons advances MIT study of aging