Bioengineering and biotechnology

MIT professor Penny Chisholm, left, and principal research scientists Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz have created an ocean model in which the populations of "sown" microbes precisely mimic real-world patterns of the same organisms.

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing

March 29, 2007

Child's play is serious study of cause and effect

March 28, 2007

Edward Boyden, assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab, uses light to silence brain cells, which could block abnormal neuron activity associated with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson's.

MIT neuroengineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons

Work could lead to new treatments for epilepsy, Parkinson's

March 27, 2007

A Cambridge biotechnology company plans to market absorbable, super strong sutures produced using a recombinant DNA technique developed at MIT.

Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

March 22, 2007

This is a ribbon diagram of the enzyme BluB, which MIT researchers have shown catalyzes the formation of DMB, a fragment of vitamin B12. The stick drawings (in yellow, red and blue) represent cofactors that the enzyme cannibalizes to form DMB.

MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle

March 21, 2007

MIT IDs role of key protein in tumor growth

March 15, 2007

An experimental in vitro demonstration of the "fluidization" of a healthy human red blood cell through a microfliuidic channel at room temperature. The series of images shows how the shape of a red blood cell changes as it is squeezed through a 4 micron by 4 micron channel.

MIT shows how blood cells change shape

Work could aid understanding of malaria, other blood disorders

March 12, 2007

Program to replenish eelgrass in New England invigorates food chain and educates students

March 12, 2007

$100M gift to launch research center for psychiatric disease

March 8, 2007

Doherty professor studies marine organisms

March 7, 2007

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MIT bioengineer advances survival, promise of adult stem cells

February 27, 2007

Metro Boston's flora and fauna reveal global warming's effect

February 27, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Gilliam fellowship winner is committed to health research and outreach

February 13, 2007

Postdoctoral fellow Christian Reinhardt, left, and Professor Michael Yaffe of MIT's Center for Cancer Research have identified a defense mechanism that helps tumor cells survive chemotherapy.

New drug may dissolve tumors' defense against chemotherapy

February 12, 2007

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