Bioengineering and biotechnology

MIT alum shares Nobel Prize in physiology

Andrew Fire PhD ’83 and colleague discovered gene regulator RNAi.

October 2, 2006

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

September 29, 2006

Sensing calcium as it flows into neurons following firing can potentially track information flow throughout the brain's circuitry. Now, an MIT team has developed a calcium contrast agent for non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging detection. At top, a schematic shows how nanoparticles coated with two proteins (red and green) form mixed aggregates in the presence of calcium. The bottom panel shows ...

Nanoparticles to aid brain imaging, team reports

September 27, 2006

MIT researchers recently found that human ubiquitin hydrolase, shown here, has the most complicated knot ever observed in a protein. The simplified diagram, inset, shows the knot in the protein, which crosses itself five times.

Knotty problem puzzles protein researchers

September 20, 2006

MIT bioengineer wins MacArthur 'genius' award

September 19, 2006

Two MIT scientists win 2006 Pioneer Awards

September 19, 2006

MIT announces major new campus development program

September 13, 2006

Seven MIT projects win environmental health grants

September 13, 2006

This scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image shows MIT's new nanoscale molecular sieve, which consists of thousands of alternating deep (300 nanometers or billionths of a meter) and shallow (55 nanometers) regions. The deep and shallow regions act together to form energy barriers that separate proteins by size. Pores of different sizes can be engineered for different filters to capture specific p...

MIT's molecular sieve advances protein research

September 11, 2006

MIT researchers have shown that certain key connections among neurons get stronger when we learn. From left are Mark F. Bear, Picower Professor of Neuroscience; postdoctorate associate Jonathan R. Whitlock; research scientist Arnold J. Heynen and research affiliate Marshall G. Shuler.

MIT provides first evidence for learning mechanism

August 24, 2006

Dean Calcagni, HST advisory council member, left, chats with Sean McKee, Pharma Biosante, at the 5th annual BioBash.

CBI unveils drug initiative at forum

August 21, 2006

MIT, FDA team up on drug safety

August 21, 2006

MIT, Broad Institute join Autism Consortium's Gene Discovery Project

August 15, 2006

Forum to spotlight personalized medicine on Aug. 17

August 10, 2006

Microbe center plumbs depths of ocean life