Bioengineering and biotechnology

New gel offers controlled drug delivery

Self-assembling hydrogel could help treat cancer and diabetes, among other diseases

March 9, 2009

Whitehead Institute researchers reprogrammed human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. After removing the reprogramming genes, the scientists used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients.Â To confirm that the iPS cells had become dopam...

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

March 5, 2009

Sophomore Asad Moten holds up a fibrous scaffold he developed that can help regenerate cartilage and other tissues.

Student's invention holds promise for engineering tissues and organs

March 4, 2009

Energy-filled days

MIT's annual student-led Energy Conference adds new events

March 4, 2009

Gold star

Geoffrey von Maltzahn awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for innovations in fight against cancer

March 3, 2009

Engineered viruses can help fight antibiotic resistance

Viruses attack bacterial defenses

March 2, 2009

MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation Joins the Engineering Systems Division

February 27, 2009

The figures show melanin production by Escherichia coli expressing a heterologous tyrosinase enzyme.Â Figure A is production with supplementation of the substrate (tyrosine) and Figure B is with endogenous production of the substrate (tyrosine) by 5 different engineered strains.

Enlisting microbes to solve global problems

Researchers harness bacteria to produce energy, clean up environment

February 17, 2009

Professor of Biological Engineering David Schauer and post-doc Megan McBee do work on infectious diarrhea in the developing world.

Chronic infection may add to developing-world deaths

MIT study points to hidden threat stalking many diarrhea patients

February 13, 2009

PDAs aren't just for checking e-mail

Researchers use handheld devices to monitor TB patients in Peru

February 11, 2009

RNA interference can suppress ovarian tumor growth

Study offers promise for new cancer treatments

February 9, 2009

A possible treatment for Rett syndrome

MIT study suggests molecule can reverse some symptoms

February 9, 2009

Professor of Anthropology and author of "Alien Ocean" Stefan Helmreich by a map showing areas where the microbes his subjects study proliferate.

Aliens at sea

Anthropologist Helmreich studies researchers studying ocean microbes

February 5, 2009

Evidence of early sponges was found in these sediments in Oman, a Marinoan age (about 635 million yearÂ old) rock unit of calcium carbonate deposited on rocks of glacial origin. The oldest sponge steroids detected in sedimentary rocks underlie this cap carbonate, and so pre-date the end of the global Marinoan glaciations.

Signs point to sponges as earliest animal life

'Chemical fossils' provide evidence for first multicelled creatures

February 4, 2009

Mass. General, MIT and Harvard launch innovative effort to search for AIDS vaccine

Phillip and Susan Ragon Institute will combine medical, scientific and engineering experts to unlock mysteries of the immune system