Bioengineering and biotechnology

A possible treatment for Rett syndrome

MIT study suggests molecule can reverse some symptoms

February 9, 2009

Professor of Anthropology and author of "Alien Ocean" Stefan Helmreich by a map showing areas where the microbes his subjects study proliferate.

Aliens at sea

Anthropologist Helmreich studies researchers studying ocean microbes

February 5, 2009

Evidence of early sponges was found in these sediments in Oman, a Marinoan age (about 635 million yearÂ old) rock unit of calcium carbonate deposited on rocks of glacial origin. The oldest sponge steroids detected in sedimentary rocks underlie this cap carbonate, and so pre-date the end of the global Marinoan glaciations.

Signs point to sponges as earliest animal life

'Chemical fossils' provide evidence for first multicelled creatures

February 4, 2009

Mass. General, MIT and Harvard launch innovative effort to search for AIDS vaccine

Phillip and Susan Ragon Institute will combine medical, scientific and engineering experts to unlock mysteries of the immune system

February 4, 2009

Phillip (Terry) and Susan Ragon hold a copy of The Boston Globe issue that announced the creation of the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute. All the principals -- the Ragons as well as the leaders of MGH, MIT and Harvard -- signed the newspaper.

Alum's $100 million gift targets AIDS vaccine

Ragon Institute to tackle quintessential MIT problem

February 4, 2009

The image on the left shows a sample from a normal prostate, with organized cells lining the O-shaped ductules. Â Mice without theÂ PTENÂ gene had developed cancer, which is characterized by enlarged glands and disorganized cells clogging the ductules (middle image). Â When mTORC2 activity is blocked in mice lacking the PTENÂ gene, the prostate ductulesÂ resemble the appearance of norm...

Preventing prostate cancer the complex way

February 2, 2009

Study links genetic, environmental causes of Parkinson's

February 1, 2009

The Graybiel Lab caused Parkinson's disease in rats by depleting dopamine in the right side of the striatum, the brain region that drives the abnormal movements in the disease, leaving the left side as the control. Treating the rats with L-DOPA induced dyskinesia...

What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?

MIT study identifies genes linked to key side effect; work signals new approaches

January 29, 2009

Ed Boyden, seated, Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, middle, and Joost Bonsen, met in Boyden's lab to discuss the class they teach together on neurotechnology as a discipline.

Burgeoning field of neurotech spawns brainy businesses

MIT positioning students for rapidly growing discipline

January 29, 2009

Nitric oxide shown to cause colon cancer

Study offers proof of compound's role in disease

January 19, 2009

Altered brain connectivity of default brain network in persons with schizophrenia...

Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on self

Study links schizophrenia to key 'default mode' in brain

January 19, 2009

Chemistry graduate student Weerawat Runguphan, left, Sarah E. O'Connor, Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry, rear, and chemistry graduate student Peter Bernhardt, right, in lab where they genetically engineered periwinkle plant cells.

Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

Periwinkle plant cells could synthesize potential drugs

January 18, 2009

Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe

January 13, 2009

MIT researchers found that mice with normal DNA repair systems had more retinal degeneration upon exposure to environmental toxic agents than mice lacking a certain DNA repair system. At right, the cross section of the retina from a mouse lacking the repair system is normal. At left, mice with too much DNA repair have greatly reduced numbers of cells in the OPL (outer plexiform layer) and ONL (ou...

Too much of a good thing

Excessive DNA repair can lead to retinal degeneration

January 9, 2009

Neuroscientists ID source of cognitive decline in aging brains

Memory suffers when brain-communication network decays

January 7, 2009

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