Biology

In Profile: Leonard Guarente

Biology professor discovered a gene at the center of aging. Now that research is yielding therapies that target the diseases of old age.

September 15, 2009

Stubbe honored by NAS

January 30, 2008

Biology professor and director of The Broad Institute Eric Lander stands behind his family at the June 19 press conference announcing the new institute. From left: daughter Jessica, 15; wife Lori; and sons Daniel, 12, and David, 8.

New genomics institute is for the children, director says

Eli & Edythe Broad give $100M to create institute with MIT, Harvard, and Whitehead to fulfill genome's promise for medicine

June 19, 2003

MIT researchers find another way to silence genes with small RNAs

February 14, 2003

MIT physicists play role in uncovering strings of toxic proteins in Alzheimer's

January 10, 2003

Gene therapy corrects sickle cell disease in mice, scientists report

December 14, 2001

Buchanan looks back on history of biochemistry

December 12, 2001

Research scientist Stefan W. Maas (left), Professor Alexander Rich and junior Jay Shrestha, another member of Rich's research team, examine data from their study on the link between RNA editing and brain tumors.

Researchers uncover link between RNA editing and brain tumor

November 28, 2001

Inaugural Sackler Lecture scheduled

November 14, 2001

Pathogen-specific gene response in human immune cells identified

November 7, 2001

MIT prof: Oceans at risk if policy tool not restricted

October 18, 2001

Talk on stem cells rescheduled for today

October 3, 2001

In the latest in a series of findings on highly specific brain functions by Nancy Kanwisher, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, researchers have identified the extrastriate body area (EBA) in the brain. The EBA responds strongly to pictures of body parts such as those pictured on the left, and does not respond strongly to similarly shaped images such as those on the right.

MIT researchers find brain region that responds to images of the human body

September 27, 2001

Researchers from around the world gathered at the Capsis Hotel in Crete to discuss exciting new applications for peptides, the designer materials of the future. MIT participants included (front row, left to right) senior Pei-Hsin Lin, postdoctoral associates Kimberly Hamad and Wonmuk Hwang, Professor Alexander Rich and conference co-organizer Shuguang Zhang, associate director of the Center for Bi...

Peptide/protein self-assembly applications touted at conference

September 12, 2001

Daley of Whitehead will discuss science of stem cells