National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors
Chakraborty, Lynch, Ploegh, and Sabatini honored for research achievements.
Chakraborty, Lynch, Ploegh, and Sabatini honored for research achievements.
New data analysis technique distinguishes active from passive fluctuations inside cells.
Katharina Ribbeck and Jesse Thaler named recipients of the Harold E. Edgerton Award.
Award will support the engineering of safe, frequently consumed bacteria to detect and kill dangerous bacteria such as those causing drug-resistant infections.
EECS senior Ava Soleimany talks about leadership, her research in synthetic biology, and her tenure as captain of the women’s tennis team.
Quantitative study of Poland's Bialowieza Forest highlights processes shaping species coexistence and potential impacts of deforestation.
In step toward personalized medicine, researchers are using single-cell analysis to unravel cancer’s secrets.
Daily doses of synthetic biotics developed by startup Synologic may sense, treat metabolic diseases.
Electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor is working at the intersection of genomics and computational biology.
By clustering, cells can work together to survive challenging environments, MIT researchers show.
Theoretical proof could lead to more reliable nanomachines.
Santiago Herrera studies the genome to establish new connections between species living in the deep sea.
Cancer cells remodel their environment to make it easier to reach nearby blood vessels.
Scientists surprised to find amino acids, not sugar, supply most building blocks for tumor cells.
Gene required for the control of behavioral state is also found in humans, may be linked to autism.