Bioengineering and biotechnology

Louise Mead of the National Center for Science Education, speaks to an MIT audience on the movement against the teaching of evolution.

Lecture examines anti-evolution movement

Run-up to 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth

September 12, 2008

Watch and learn: Time teaches us how to recognize visual objects

MIT work could help develop better computer vision systems

September 11, 2008

Glenn Foundation gift creates new lab for the science of aging

September 9, 2008

<a href="http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM/demo.html" target="_blank">Demo of massive memory study</a>

MIT researchers find memory capacity much bigger than previously thought

September 8, 2008

From left to right, Broad Institute Director Eric Lander, MIT President Susan Hockfield, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, Eli and Edythe Broad, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore of Caltech at the Sept. 4 press conference announcing the Broad's $400 million gift.

Philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad make unprecedented gift to endow the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

$400 million endowment gift brings total commitment to $600 million; Novel experiment in new way of doing science declared early success

September 4, 2008

Manalis a winner of new NIH grant

EUREKA program seeks to unleash revolutionary science

September 3, 2008

From left, graduate student YongKeun Park, School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh, Professor Michael Feld, and postdocs Monica Diez-Silva, George Lykotrafitis and Wonshik Choi stand in the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory. The group has used microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

MIT zooms in on malaria-infected cells

Work could aid in diagnostics, drug testing

September 1, 2008

Andy Wijaya, an MIT graduate student in chemical engineering, prepares a gold nanorod solution for pump-probe spectroscopy with (standing, left to right) postdoc Aaron Schmidt and professors Gang Chen and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli observing.

Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

MIT researchers see precious metal's value in war on cancer, other applications

August 22, 2008

MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

Work could lead to new drugs for the common disease

August 21, 2008

From left, MIT professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond. The three have authored a paper detailing their virus-based method of creating and installing microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces.

MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries

Microbatteries could power tomorrow's miniature devices

August 20, 2008

Building microchips from the bottom up

MIT develops novel self-assembly method that could break size barrier

August 14, 2008

Geobiologist Newman follows a rocky road

New HHMI investigator sees clues to life in ancient rocks

August 4, 2008

Winners of the 2008 Biocant Ventures Prize from the MIT Portugal Program's Bio-Teams, from left: researcher John Jones and students David Malta, Mariana Fernandes and Tatiana Aguiar.

MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition

Invention could help diagnose muscle wasting

July 23, 2008

Coronal sections of injured adult spinal cord, anterior to posterior. The labelling shows recombined ependymal cells and their progeny (white) migrating out to the injury area in the dorsal funiculus, as a reponse to the injury (injury is in the image on the right hand corner). The mouse is a FoxJ1-CreER x R26R-LacZ reporter.

Spinal cord stem cells could be basis of new treatment

July 21, 2008

MIT engineers used a new imaging technique to pinpoint the locations of mouse pancreatic cells with a specific mutation. The blue dots represent pancreatic cell nuclei, and the cells within the yellow cluster express the mutation.

MIT researchers offer glimpse of rare mutant cells

Imaging system may help understand origins of cancer