Genomics and lab studies reveal numerous findings, including a key role for Reelin amid neuronal vulnerability, and for choline and antioxidants in sustaining cognition.
By analyzing bacterial data, researchers have discovered thousands of rare new CRISPR systems that have a range of functions and could enable gene editing, diagnostics, and more.
MIT computer scientists developed a way to calculate polygenic scores that makes them more accurate for people across diverse ancestries.
MIT researchers model and create an atlas for how neurons of the worm C. elegans encode its behaviors, make findings available on their “WormWideWeb.”
New fellows are working on health records, robot control, pandemic preparedness, brain injuries, and more.
With NEET, Sherry Nyeo is discovering MIT’s undergraduate research community at the intersection of computer science and biological engineering.
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.
The technique can help predict a cell’s path over time, such as what type of cell it will become.
MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
MIT-Jordan Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Seed Fund winners announced.
Graduate student Ellen Zhong helped biologists and mathematicians reach across departmental lines to address a longstanding problem in electron microscopy.
Applied computational biology discoveries vastly expand the range of CRISPR’s access to DNA sequences.
Committing to aggressive conservation efforts could rebuild ocean habitats and species populations in a few decades.
Solugen’s engineered enzymes offer a biologically-inspired method for producing the chemical.
New research provides insight into the behavior of microbial communities in the ocean.