Bioengineering and biotechnology

Memory formation in children, adolescents and young adults: Brain activation in the medial temporal lobe (lower brain scans) remains constant while activation in the prefrontal cortex (upper brain scans) increases from childhood to adulthood when successfully memorizing pictures with rich detail.

MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories

August 5, 2007

MIT adds new graduate program in microbiology

August 2, 2007

Steven Shannon, operations manager and MR research technologist at MIT, with the 9.4 Tesla MRI machine in the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute.

New high-resolution MRI machine comes to MIT

July 31, 2007

Douglas Lauffenburger, director of Biological Engineering, with a schematic of the intracellular "information-processing" circuit on the monitor in front of him.

MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs

Work could lead to targeted therapies

July 26, 2007

Paul Huang, graduate student in biological engineering, left, and Professor Forest White of biological engineering with a mass spectrometer showing the electrospray ionization tip of a liquid chromatography column. Samples are loaded on the column and electrosprayed into the mass spectrometer, where their mass and sequence is identified, allowing White and Huang to analyze the sample.

Brain discovery could fight deadly tumors

July 18, 2007

Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience

MIT IDs mechanism behind fear

Work could lead to first drug for post-traumatic stress disorder

July 15, 2007

Whitehead postdoctoral students Stuart Levine and Matthew Guenther

Team finds new mechanism of gene control

Further understanding might aid regenerative medicine, more

July 12, 2007

Eugene Bell, 'father of tissue engineering,' dies at 88

July 12, 2007

Neutrophils, a kind of white blood cell, are shown here (in pink) engulfing their targets (bacteria or fungi).

Killer cells may actually be picky eaters

July 11, 2007

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