Genetics

A Cambridge biotechnology company plans to market absorbable, super strong sutures produced using a recombinant DNA technique developed at MIT.

Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

March 22, 2007

This is a ribbon diagram of the enzyme BluB, which MIT researchers have shown catalyzes the formation of DMB, a fragment of vitamin B12. The stick drawings (in yellow, red and blue) represent cofactors that the enzyme cannibalizes to form DMB.

MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle

March 21, 2007

$100M gift to launch research center for psychiatric disease

March 8, 2007

MicroRNA found to regulate gene implicated in cancer

March 2, 2007

Team unlocks genetic basis of Type 2 diabetes

February 21, 2007

Picower study points to a genetic link for schizophrenia

February 20, 2007

Gilliam fellowship winner is committed to health research and outreach

February 13, 2007

Graduate student Jianping Fu (left), Professor Jongyoon Han and postdoc Reto Schoch have created a microchip system that allows speedy separation and sorting of biomolecules.

MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip

February 5, 2007

Andrea Ventura, an MIT postdoctoral associate, works in the lab at the Center for Cancer Research. He and his colleagues have shown that by reactivating a certain gene, cancerous tumors in mice can be drastically reduced in size.

Reactivated gene shrinks tumors, MIT study finds

January 24, 2007

CEHS hosts gene-environment symposium Jan. 26

January 24, 2007

Discovery could lead to new therapies for autoimmune diseases

January 22, 2007

A team of scientists led by MIT professor David Bartel has discovered a new class of RNA molecules, termed 21U-RNAs, while studying the C. elegans worm, above.

Scientists discover new class of RNA

January 11, 2007

Postdoc Joanna Klapacz, left, works with Kennedy-Longfellow School sixth grader Ellie Montgomery in a genetics lab in the Edgerton Center program.

Samson Lab hosts Cambridge middle-school students

January 10, 2007

Micro-RNA research proves Rich's 1961 'suggestion'

January 9, 2007

Biophysicist Alexander Rich first mixed two differing strands of RNA in 1956 to discover the RNA double helix. He holds a model of tRNA (transfer ribonucleic acid).

Scientists celebrate 50 years since key RNA discovery

MIT biophysicist recalls biotech's founding technology