Genetics

Vials of lipid-like molecules developed by a team from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Some of the compounds have successfully delivered RNA interference agents in animals.

Team develops safe, effective RNA interference technique

Method holds promise for treating cancer and infection

April 27, 2008

Gene's 'selective signature' helps scientists identify instances of natural selection in microbial evolution

April 2, 2008

Researchers in MIT cancer researcher Tyler Jacks' lab have demonstrated the role of a family of microRNAs in normal embryonic development. Amanda Young, a graduate student of biology, shows a film to, from left, postdoc Monte Winslow, research technician Laura Lintault and postdoc Andrea Ventura.

MIT researchers demonstrate protective role of microRNA

Genetic snippets linked to cancer also key to embryonic cell development

March 7, 2008

Philip Lessard, Kazuhiko Kurosawa and Anthony Sinskey display a new type of antibiotic they produced by pitting two strains of bacteria against one another. Lessard, a research scientist, and postdoc Kurosawa work in the MIT lab of Sinskey, a professor of microbiology and health sciences and technology.

Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

Holds promise for treating stomach ulcers

February 26, 2008

MIT: No easy answers in evolution of human language

February 17, 2008

MIT researcher addresses biomedical engineering challenges

February 15, 2008

From left, postdoctoral associate Albert Y. Hung and Menicon Professor of Neuroscience Morgan H. Sheng report gene research that may explain the phenomenon of autistic savants.

Gene research may help explain autistic savants

February 12, 2008

On the front lines of the genomic revolution

February 6, 2008

Arlin Rogers, principal research scientist in the MIT Division of Comparative Medicine, looks at slides in his office. He and colleagues have figured out why men are more susceptible to liver cancer than women.

Genes key to high liver cancer rates in men

January 15, 2008

MIT reports new twist in microRNA biology

Computational biology group identifies new mechanism of gene regulation

January 9, 2008

Mark Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience (right), and GÃ¼l DÃ¶len, a graduate student at Brown University, report the correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice

Research points to potential drug treatment for humans

December 19, 2007

Heads or tails? Scientists ID gene key to regenerating flatworms

December 11, 2007

The cycle by which MIT/Whitehead scientists successfully treated mice with a human sickle-cell anemia disease trait, using a process that begins by directly reprogramming the mice's own cells to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state.

MIT corrects sickle-cell anemia in mice

Research involves reprogramming adult cells

December 7, 2007

MIT team discovers bacterial surprise

A DNA shift never before seen in nature

December 3, 2007

Genomic study of malaria parasite unearths surprising behaviors

November 28, 2007

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