Bioengineering and biotechnology

MIT reports new twist in microRNA biology

Computational biology group identifies new mechanism of gene regulation

January 9, 2008

Transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 viruses (purple) released from infected human cell (blue).

MIT finds key to avian flu in humans

January 6, 2008

Mark Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience (right), and GÃ¼l DÃ¶len, a graduate student at Brown University, report the correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice

Research points to potential drug treatment for humans

December 19, 2007

Graduate student Christopher Bettinger and Robert Langer, Institute Professor and professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, have developed a way to make capillaries grow on a nano-patterned surface.

MIT works toward engineered blood vessels

Vessels could be used in human body

December 17, 2007

HST faculty member wins BMW Science Award

December 12, 2007

MIT has developed a new system for sorting cells that involves special "traps" in a silicone layer bonded to a microscope slide. Cells with specific properties are then levitated out of their traps using the pressure of a beam of targeted light from a low-cost laser. A flowing fluid then sweeps the selected cells off to a separate reservoir

Laser beam 'fire hose' used to sort cells

Could enable new kinds of biological research

December 11, 2007

Heads or tails? Scientists ID gene key to regenerating flatworms

December 11, 2007

The cycle by which MIT/Whitehead scientists successfully treated mice with a human sickle-cell anemia disease trait, using a process that begins by directly reprogramming the mice's own cells to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state.

MIT corrects sickle-cell anemia in mice

Research involves reprogramming adult cells

December 7, 2007

Missing protein may be key to autism

December 5, 2007

From left, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Edwin Thomas, who is also department head, Professor Patrick Doyle of chemical engineering and materials science postdoc Ji-Hyun Jang. The researchers have designed a technique to control the size, shape and texture of microparticles.

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

December 4, 2007

Cancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach

December 3, 2007

MIT team discovers bacterial surprise

A DNA shift never before seen in nature

December 3, 2007

Carlos Lois and colleagues have found that adult stem cells produced in the brain are preprogrammed to make only certain kinds of connections. Lois is an assistant professor of neuroscience in MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

MIT: stem-cell therapies for brain more complicated than thought

November 30, 2007

Genomic study of malaria parasite unearths surprising behaviors

November 28, 2007

Machine that Celsion (Canada) Limited plans to use in the next clinical trial of a thermotherapy treatment for breast cancer developed at MIT.

MIT radar technology fights breast cancer

Clinical results using microwave heat treatments are promising