Exposing collagen's double life
Discovery that the rigid structural protein can switch to a floppy shape could lead to new treatments for heart disease.
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Cementing success
Startup that eyes radical shift in cement industry wins MIT $100K business-plan competition, now in its 20th year.
Stubbe wins prestigious Welch Award
Professor of chemistry and biology honored for her work on enzymes involved in DNA and RNA synthesis
Building organs block by block
Tissue engineers create a new way to assemble artificial tissues, using ‘biological Legos’ — cells transformed into bricks.
When good enough is better
By exploiting a simple but counterintuitive trick, a new system finds sections of computer programs where accuracy can be traded for speed.
Explained: Directed evolution
Speeding up protein evolution in the lab can yield useful molecules that nature never intended.
NASA chief defends Obama’s space plan
In MIT visit, Charles Bolden touts proposed expansion in R&D funding
3 Questions: The euro mess
MIT Sloan economist Kristin Forbes on the recent troubles roiling the international financial markets
Mysterious quantum forces unraveled
MIT researchers find a way to calculate the effects of Casimir forces, offering a way to keep micromachines’ parts from sticking together.
Moving in circles
MIT scholar’s new book scrutinizes the successes and failures of a unique government experiment meant to help America’s urban poor.
New project aims for fusion ignition
MIT-led Ignitor reactor could be the world’s first to reach major milestone, perhaps paving the way for eventual power production.
Joshua Jahnke, recently completed graduate studies, dies at age 29
Dying from pancreatic cancer, the U.S. Navy lieutenant was determined to earn his degree.
Seeing the forest for the trees
Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.
Tackling cancer on a new front
New program at MIT’s Koch Institute targets the growing cancer problem in India.