Bioengineering and biotechnology

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

May 21, 2007

NMR advance relies on microscopic detector

Technology could vastly improve diagnostics

May 15, 2007

From left to right, Professors Linda Griffith and Leona Samson with Harvey Lodish of the Whitehead Institute, and graduate student Joe Shuga.

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

May 14, 2007

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Reception, biotech convention draw MIT and worldwide participants

May 11, 2007

These peptide arrays--glass slides covered with thousands of tiny protein fragments--were used to observe the formation of the long fibers key to certain neurodegenerative diseases.

Scientists ID secret to infectious protein

Prions misfold and recruit others to follow suit

May 10, 2007

Scientists at the Broad Institute, in completing the genome sequence of the opossum, have found that so-called junk DNA may play a creative role in evolution.

Opossum genome, just decoded, sheds light on evolution

'Restless lifestyle' of so-called junk DNA has meaning for all

May 9, 2007

First Step Coral team members hold SunPower solar panels to make "MIT" sign at sunset in Sagay, Philippines. Left to right: Martin Lorilla '09, Illac Diaz (MIT SPURS Fellow), Emzo de los Santos '09, Francis Lorilla (MIT Dad) and Gerardo Jose la O' (MIT graduate student).

Wind, sun and tides power Biorock, rehab for recovering coral reefs

May 8, 2007

Systems biology, in search of a metaphor, tries out language of machines, intestines

May 2, 2007

Professor James Fujimoto with a high-resolution, 3-D image generated using a new type of laser in combination with the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system he developed in the early 1990s with Eric Swanson of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

MIT team takes high-res, 3-D images of eye

April 30, 2007

Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and colleagues have found that exposing lab mice to certain environmental stimuli induced the animals' brain cells to make new connections.

Picower team reverses Alzheimer's-like symptoms in mice

'Lost' memories may prove merely inaccessible

April 30, 2007

Genzyme co-founder will discuss long-term energy research

April 27, 2007

Tennessee students visit cell exhibit

April 25, 2007

Postdoctoral associate Michel Godin, left, Associate Professor Scott
Manalis of biological engineering and postdoctoral associate Thomas Burg are part of an MIT team that has developed a technique to measure the mass of single cells.

New MIT technique weighs single living cells

One promising application is creation of a cheap and robust device to monitor CD4 cell numbers in AIDS patients

April 25, 2007

Nobel laureate and MIT Professor of Biology H. Robert Horvitz

Horvitz will deliver Killian Lecture on April 24

April 20, 2007

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