Bioengineering and biotechnology

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

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

July 21, 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-led team creates touch-based illusion

Mind trick yields new insights on perception

July 17, 2008

Individual proteins converge to form the distinctive shape of mitochondria.

Team unveils 'parts list' of cell powerhouse

July 11, 2008

Study points to dietary cocktail for Alzheimer's

Supplement improves memory, learning in gerbils

July 8, 2008

New technique produces genetically identical stem cells

July 1, 2008

The strength of actin binding protein interactions cross-linking a surface bound and bead tethered actin filament are probed using force from an optical trap. Filamin in green which forms networks of actin filaments shown as a confocal image on the right and alpha-actinin in blue which bundles actin filaments, shown as an image on the left, were probed using this assay configuration.

Using a light touch to measure protein bonds

MIT researchers tug at molecules with optical tweezers

June 30, 2008

New probe may help untangle cells' signaling pathways

June 27, 2008

Proliferating cells foil microRNA control

June 20, 2008

Diagram shows the structure of a histidine kinase (blue ribbons) and its target response regulator (green ribbons). The specificity of the interaction between the two proteins is primarily determined by the orange and red amino acid residues.

MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways

June 12, 2008

MIT researchers have created 'striped' nanoparticles capable of entering a cell without rupturing it. In the background of thisÂ cartoon are cells that have taken up nanoparticles carrying fluorescent imaging agents

Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery

June 9, 2008

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