Bioengineering and biotechnology

Heads or tails? Scientists ID gene key to regenerating flatworms

December 11, 2007

MIT has developed a new system for sorting cells that involves special "traps" in a silicone layer bonded to a microscope slide. Cells with specific properties are then levitated out of their traps using the pressure of a beam of targeted light from a low-cost laser. A flowing fluid then sweeps the selected cells off to a separate reservoir

Laser beam 'fire hose' used to sort cells

Could enable new kinds of biological research

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

Missing protein may be key to autism

December 5, 2007

From left, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Edwin Thomas, who is also department head, Professor Patrick Doyle of chemical engineering and materials science postdoc Ji-Hyun Jang. The researchers have designed a technique to control the size, shape and texture of microparticles.

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

December 4, 2007

MIT team discovers bacterial surprise

A DNA shift never before seen in nature

December 3, 2007

Cancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach

December 3, 2007

Carlos Lois and colleagues have found that adult stem cells produced in the brain are preprogrammed to make only certain kinds of connections. Lois is an assistant professor of neuroscience in MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

MIT: stem-cell therapies for brain more complicated than thought

November 30, 2007

Machine that Celsion (Canada) Limited plans to use in the next clinical trial of a thermotherapy treatment for breast cancer developed at MIT.

MIT radar technology fights breast cancer

Clinical results using microwave heat treatments are promising

November 28, 2007

Genomic study of malaria parasite unearths surprising behaviors

November 28, 2007

'Cocktail' of compounds improves brain function in rodents

Treatment undergoing a clinical study in Alzheimer's patients

November 26, 2007

Leona Samson, left, and Dr. Rebecca Fry have found that prenatal exposure to arsenic leads to alarming changes in the genetics of newborn babies. Samson is the director of MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) and the American Cancer Society Professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Biology. Fry is assistant scientific director of CEHS.

Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns

Research could lead to test for screening populations for the poison

November 22, 2007

Biology professor Frank Gertler sits by a microscope in his lab. Gertler leads a team that's uncovered new insights on early development of the nervous system.

MIT IDs proteins key to brain function

Research could lead to new treatments for brain injuries

November 19, 2007

Liver cells in the micropatterned co-culture form tube-like structures (shown here in green) that resemble bile capillaries found in a human liver.

'Micro' livers could aid drug screening

November 19, 2007

MIT to host "Frontiers in Modern Microscopy" workshop Nov. 20

November 16, 2007

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