MIT engineers develop electrochemical sensors for cheap, disposable diagnostics
Electrodes coated with DNA could enable inexpensive tests with a long shelf-life, which could detect many diseases and be deployed in the doctor’s office or at home.
Electrodes coated with DNA could enable inexpensive tests with a long shelf-life, which could detect many diseases and be deployed in the doctor’s office or at home.
Researchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.
Senior Technical Instructor Vanessa Cheung ’02 brings the energy, experience, and excitement needed to educate students in the biology teaching lab.
A quarter century after its founding, the McGovern Institute reflects on its discoveries in the areas of neuroscience, neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, brain-body connections, and therapeutics.
The programmable proteins are compact, modular, and can be directed to modify DNA in human cells.
Four professors and an additional alumnus honored with nation’s highest awards for scientists and engineers; Moderna, with deep MIT roots, also recognized.
A new study of the microbiome finds intestinal bacterial interact much less often with viruses that trigger immunity updates than bacteria in the lab.
New research reveals what it takes for a protein that is best known for protecting cells against death to take on the opposite role.
Custom plates display expressions of scholarship, creativity, and MIT pride among Institute affiliates.
A new gene-silencing tool shows promise as a future therapy against prion diseases and paves the way for new approaches to treating disease.
With the new technique, MIT researchers hope to identify mutations that could be targeted with new cancer therapies.
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.
New research finds RNA-guided enzymes called Fanzors are widespread among eukaryotic organisms.
A new approach for identifying significant differences in gene use between closely-related species provides insights into human evolution.
The first RNA-guided DNA-cutting enzyme found in eukaryotes, Fanzor could one day be harnessed to edit DNA more precisely than CRISPR/Cas systems.