Bioengineering and biotechnology

Jacks to share cancer research prize

November 16, 2005

President George W. Bush congratulates MIT Institute Professor Phillip A. Sharp on receiving the National Medal of Science on Monday, Feb. 13, in the White House.

MIT professors receive Medal of Science

November 16, 2005

MIT researcher presents new view of how the cortex forms

November 10, 2005

Teams lay BioBrick foundation for genetic engineering

November 8, 2005

Neurons in a purely visual brain region called the inferotemporal (IT) cortex respond selectively to different images. As pictures were randomly presented to the monkey during specific intervals (top), neurons at different sites in IT produce distinct patterns of activity to each picture (bottom). For example, neurons at site 1 favor the toy and the yam, while neurons at site 3 prefer the monkey f...

Neuroscientists break code on sight

November 3, 2005

Teams gather for genetic engineering competition

November 3, 2005

Any two unrelated people are 99.9 percent identical at the level of DNA sequence. The remaining 0.1 percent difference can help explain why one person has distinct physical features, is more susceptible to a disease or responds differently to a drug or an environmental factor than another person.

HapMap provides 'catalog' of human genetic variation

October 27, 2005

Research team borrows metal tool for protein engineering

October 25, 2005

MIT cancer program granted $3.2 million

October 21, 2005

MIT researchers used laboratory rats in a maze to study what happens when the brain forms a habit. Rats learned to associate the location of a sound, at left in diagram, with the location of a food reward. The researchers then changed the environment by removing the reward, in effect breaking the habit. When the reward was restored, however, the neural pathways created by the habit immediately ref...

Brain researchers explain why old habits die hard

October 19, 2005

Whitehead research opens door to new stem cell work

October 19, 2005

Neuroscience events to mark brain and cog complex opening

October 18, 2005

Feel the magnetic force

October 5, 2005

MIT chosen for national role fighting cancer

October 4, 2005

Team discovers why melanoma is so malignant

September 23, 2005

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