Bioengineering and biotechnology

In this magnified image from the PNAS paper, a nerve cell derived from artificially created stem cells is shown after its integration in an animal brain.

Stem cell method treats Parkinson's symptoms in rats

April 7, 2008

Panel focuses on turning biomedical advances into reality

April 3, 2008

Gene's 'selective signature' helps scientists identify instances of natural selection in microbial evolution

April 2, 2008

CDC chief Gerberding to speak at MIT April 2

March 28, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, one of two winners of the 2008 Max Planck Research Award, gives a speech at the June 26th award ceremony as part of the 59th annual meeting of the Max Planck Society in Dresden, Germany.

Langer wins major German science award

March 18, 2008

Professor Rohit Karnik works in the lab with the new method for cell separation that he, Institute Professor Robert Langer and other colleagues have developed. It involves steering rolling cells and could lead to devices for rapidly detecting diseases.

On a 'roll': MIT researchers devise new cell-sorting system

Process could yield low-cost tool for diagnosing cancer, other diseases

March 12, 2008

Researchers in MIT cancer researcher Tyler Jacks' lab have demonstrated the role of a family of microRNAs in normal embryonic development. Amanda Young, a graduate student of biology, shows a film to, from left, postdoc Monte Winslow, research technician Laura Lintault and postdoc Andrea Ventura.

MIT researchers demonstrate protective role of microRNA

Genetic snippets linked to cancer also key to embryonic cell development

March 7, 2008

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

Wee creatures are key to Earth's environment

March 3, 2008

This prototype of the PANTHER device is about one cubic foot and weighs 37 pounds.

PANTHER sensor from MIT Lincoln Laboratory quickly detects pathogens

March 3, 2008

This frame from a time-lapse movie shows multiple traces (red) of a single rat whisker, captured at 3,200 frames per second, as it moves from left to right across a rough surface and then a smoother one. (For clarity, only every 3rd trace is shown, or about one per millisecond). Clusters and gaps of the traces correspond to this whisker's rapid sticking and slipping movements during ~175 millisec...

MIT researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action

February 27, 2008

MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu has won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing processes to combat bacterial infections by enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance

Timothy Lu awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness

February 27, 2008

Philip Lessard, Kazuhiko Kurosawa and Anthony Sinskey display a new type of antibiotic they produced by pitting two strains of bacteria against one another. Lessard, a research scientist, and postdoc Kurosawa work in the MIT lab of Sinskey, a professor of microbiology and health sciences and technology.

Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

Holds promise for treating stomach ulcers

February 26, 2008

MIT Professor Eric Lander describes the future of biology in an inspirational talk to high school students as part of the annual meeting of the American Junior Academy of Science.

Trip of a lifetime: MIT hosts next generation of science leaders

February 20, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer and faculty member Jeffrey Karp, both affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, display an adhesive they developed that was inspired by the gecko and may have medical and surgical applications.

MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage

February 18, 2008

This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) shows the 1918 influenza virus, which CDC researchers re-created in 2005.

MIT explains spread of 1918 flu pandemic