Of yeast, ecology, and cancer
Jeff Gore’s work with baker’s yeast helps ecologists respond to trends, like vanishing fisheries and collapsing honeybee colonies.
Jeff Gore’s work with baker’s yeast helps ecologists respond to trends, like vanishing fisheries and collapsing honeybee colonies.
Rhodes Scholar Elliot Akama-Garren seeks to harness the power of the immune system to combat cancer.
When RNA-binding proteins are turned on, cancer cells get locked in a proliferative state.
Ibrahim Cissé is unraveling the mystery of DNA transcription, one molecule at a time.
Newly tenured biologist Jeroen Saeij wants to know what makes Toxoplasma gondii so unpredictable.
Elliot Akama-Garren ’15, Anisha Gururaj ’15, and Noam Angrist ’13 are among 32 winners nationwide.
Eisen was a pioneering immunologist and longstanding member of MIT’s cancer research community.
Newly tenured biologist Iain Cheeseman explores the complex structures that control cell division.
An enzyme key to DNA repair can worsen tissue damage caused by stroke and organ transplantation.
New genome-editing technique enables rapid analysis of genes mutated in tumors.
Senior Christina Lalani applies lessons she learned from karate to global health disparities.
Analysis of 89 models of metabolic processes finds flaws in 44 of them — but suggests corrections.
Biophysicist studies transcription with single-molecule resolution in live mammalian cells.
Different environment helps yeast tolerate high levels of ethanol, making them more productive.