“Kill switches” shut down engineered bacteria
Synthetic biology technique could make it safer to put engineered microbes to work outside the lab.
Synthetic biology technique could make it safer to put engineered microbes to work outside the lab.
Team re-engineers system to dramatically cut down on editing errors; improvements advance future human applications.
Berggren, Bertschinger, Fink, and Zue are among those recognized for efforts toward advancing science.
PhD student Abe Weintraub helps identify when DNA folding is helpful, and when it might cause cancer.
Biochemist who graduated from MIT in 1968 is honored for his work on DNA repair mechanisms.
MIT scientists identify and map the protein behind a light-sensing mechanism.
CRISPR-Cpf1 offers simpler approach to editing DNA; technology could disrupt scientific and commercial landscape.
With a new DARPA contract, biological engineer Christopher Voigt aims to harness the power of living cells.
Engineered viruses could combat human disease and improve food safety.
MIT physics graduate student James Owen Andrews is developing software to improve dynamic image capture from super-resolution fluorescent microscopes.
Assistant professor of physics probes the formation of enzyme clusters that enable gene copying and protein production in living cells.
Theoretical analysis could expand applications of accelerated searching in biology, other fields.
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.
Researchers discover how the immune system can create cancerous DNA mutations when fighting off infection.