Bioengineering and biotechnology

Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues

Biologists find almost all genes express multiple messenger RNAs

November 2, 2008

Principal research scientist with Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Lisa Freed, left, and George Engelmayr Jr., post-doc in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences report new scaffold (shown on monitor)for tissue engineering of the heart.

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

New scaffold approach could also aid engineering of other tissues

November 2, 2008

Professor of Biology Angelika Amon reports new insights into how cells divide, a process important to cancer research.

Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits

New findings could help fight cancer

October 30, 2008

Computer model reveals cells' inner workings

New approach could help tailor chemotherapy treatments

October 16, 2008

Whitehead director Page named to the Institute of Medicine

October 14, 2008

Broad Institute awarded major grant

October 1, 2008

Sniffing out success

MIT engineers mass-produce smell receptors in lab; 'artificial noses' to follow?

September 29, 2008

View of C. elegans worm in which neurons (green) and muscles (red) that control egg laying have been genetically labeled.

Worms provide clues for treating brain diseases

September 24, 2008

MIT senior Christopher Love and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can be used to prevent forest fires. Love works here with a test tree behind the copper-plated insulated door of MIT's Faraday cage.

Preventing forest fires with tree power

Sensor system runs on electricity generated by trees

September 23, 2008

Three faculty win '08 NIH Pioneer Awards

September 22, 2008

Rudie Berkhout's "Delta II" is among the works of art that make up the MIT Museum's second annual winter holography exhibition.

MITEI awards second round of seed grants

September 18, 2008

Why chemo works for some people and not others

MIT cell findings could predict individuals' responses

September 18, 2008

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

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