Department of Biology welcomes three new faculty members
Recent additions bring diverse expertise and cultural perspectives to research community.
Whitehead Institute
Progress toward a Zika vaccine
Researchers program RNA nanoparticles that could protect against the virus.
Susan Lindquist, pioneering biologist and former director of Whitehead Institute, dies at 67
Biology professor and mentor to many investigated protein folding and its role in disease.
Targeting genes by the thousands
PhD student Tim Wang uses CRISPR to take a big-picture approach to cancer research.
Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and a common parasite.
National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors
Chakraborty, Lynch, Ploegh, and Sabatini honored for research achievements.
Scientific art lights up Main Street
Art and science converge in the public galleries at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
How diet influences colon cancer
Study ties high-fat diet to changes in intestinal stem cells, may help explain increased cancer risk.
Reuben Saunders named 2016-2017 Churchill Scholar
MIT senior and chemistry major will pursue graduate studies in the U.K.
Four MIT faculty elected 2015 AAAS Fellows
Berggren, Bertschinger, Fink, and Zue are among those recognized for efforts toward advancing science.
Analyzing protein structures in their native environment
Enhanced-sensitivity NMR could reveal new clues to how proteins fold.
An ally for the understudied Y chromosome
Graduate student Alexander Godfrey tackles a chromosome that half the world has — yet few understand.
Biologists identify brain tumor weakness
Discovery could offer a new target for treatment of glioblastoma.