Bioengineering and biotechnology

Team reports genetic link between aging, neurodegenerative disorders

Work could lead to new drugs against Alzheimer's, more

July 9, 2007

This diagram shows how an engineered virus,T7, destroys a biofilm composed of E. coli bacteria.

Team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'

A big step forward for synthetic biology

July 6, 2007

MIT biology, physics and nuclear science professors honored

July 3, 2007

Team sheds light on cells' career path

Work could impact developmental biology, regenerative medicine

July 1, 2007

Susumu Tonegawa, professor of biology at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory and Mansuo L. Hayashi, former Picower Center for Learning and Memory post-doc in Tonegawa's lab at MIT. They have reversed symptoms of retardation in mice due to Fragile X syndrome.

MIT locates key enzyme for reversing retardation in mice

'Elegant genetic manipulation' inhibits Fragile X symptoms

June 25, 2007

Team's model aids understanding of protein networks

Work could impact cancer research

June 25, 2007

Biology professor Leonard Guarente, left, and postdoctoral associate Nicholas Bishop, in the lab where they have been studying longevity in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

MIT biologists link calorie restriction, endocrine function in worm longevity

Identifying neurons advances MIT study of aging

June 18, 2007

Graduate student and lead author Sunyoung Lee and Professor Krystyn Van Vliet in the lab with images of cell surfaces on the monitor behind them.

Force, not light, gives researchers images of cell receptors

Technique could assist in the design and testing of new drug molecules

June 13, 2007

Professor Hazel Sive named associate dean of the School of Science

June 11, 2007

Naturally derived embryonic stem cells from mice (left) are morphologically identical to reprogrammed fibroblasts (right).

Scientists create embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos

Researchers are 'optimistic' that the process can one day work in human cells

June 6, 2007

Biology awards

June 6, 2007

Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning

June 4, 2007

From left, research scientists Ming Dao and Kuangshin Tai, Ph.D, Professor Christine Ortiz, and Professor Subra Suresh with equipment they used to investigate bone structure.

MIT researchers probe bones' tiny building blocks

Team's results could lead to new composites that mimic bones' capacity to 'fail gracefully'

May 24, 2007

Martha Constantine-Paton, an MIT professor of biology and principle investigator in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and research scientist Akira Yoshii have discovered a new molecular pathway that helps solve the puzzle of how neurons form synapses.

MIT reports key pathway in synaptic plasticity

Work could aid study of brain disorders

May 21, 2007

Part of the global team responsible for confirming the protein RESA's role in causing malaria by binding to red blood cells, in a lab at MIT. Professor Subra Suresh, left, research scientist Ming Dao, standing, post-doc Monica Diez Silva, seated, graduate student David Quinn, seated, graduate student John Mills, and professor Matthew Lang.

MIT-led team ID's cell mechanics of hallmark malaria protein

GEM4's multidisciplinary, multinational research targets public health crises like malaria