Bioengineering and biotechnology

Genome study shines light on genetic link to height

First reproducible connection made between genes and height in humans

September 10, 2007

An MIT team has created polymer-DNA nanoparticles to deliver disease-fighting genes . From left are Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, bioengineering graduate student Jordan Green and Greg Zugates, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering.

MIT works toward safer gene therapy

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

September 7, 2007

MIT Professor Markus Buehler has helped reveal why bones are so tough. The object on the screen is a triple helical tropocollagen molecule, a fundamental building block of bone. Next to the molecule are nanosized hydroxyapatite chalk-like crystals. In his work he simulates the behavior of the composite of tropocollagen and hydroxyapatite during deformation.

MIT probes secret of bone's strength

September 6, 2007

MIT research details parasitic battles

Work indicates impact on evolution

September 5, 2007

Drawings of visual objects by a stroke victim known as BL. When a stimulus appears just below BL's blind area, the shape elongates upwards and into the blind area. He perceived circles as cigar shaped, squares as rectangles, and triangles as pencil shaped.

Adult brain can change, study confirms

Work could aid interventions following stroke

September 5, 2007

MIT student Lisa Nakano, left, a senior in brain and cognitive sciences; Ruth Rosenholtz, principal research scientist; and graduate student Yuan Zhen laugh at the clutter in an office. The three have identified a way to measure visual clutter.

MIT's 'clutter detector' could cut confusion

August 21, 2007

This photo shows an immobilized C. elegans worm inside the new microfluidic chip designed at MIT. The green spots are neurons.

MIT invents 'lab on a chip' to automate whole-animal genetic and drug screens

August 20, 2007

Grown in a newly invented culture medium, these normal human breast cells (whose membranes are stained red) form sheets.

Team finds way to create cancer stem cells

MIT achievement could aid cancer research

August 13, 2007

From left: Kamran Badizadegan, principal research scientist; Wonshik Choi, postdoc; and Michael Feld, physics professor and director of the MIT Spectroscopy Lab. The three have found a way to create 3D images of the inner workings of cells, as illustrated on monitor in front of them.

MIT creates 3D images of living cell

August 12, 2007

MIT post-doc Joel Neilson, left, graduate student Margaret Ebert and Institute Professor Phillip Sharp have developed a new technique to study the function of microRNA that could shed light on the genetic material's hypothesized role in cancer.

MIT's MicroRNA 'sponges' could aid cancer studies

August 12, 2007

Memory formation in children, adolescents and young adults: Brain activation in the medial temporal lobe (lower brain scans) remains constant while activation in the prefrontal cortex (upper brain scans) increases from childhood to adulthood when successfully memorizing pictures with rich detail.

MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories

August 5, 2007

MIT adds new graduate program in microbiology

August 2, 2007

Steven Shannon, operations manager and MR research technologist at MIT, with the 9.4 Tesla MRI machine in the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute.

New high-resolution MRI machine comes to MIT

July 31, 2007

Douglas Lauffenburger, director of Biological Engineering, with a schematic of the intracellular "information-processing" circuit on the monitor in front of him.

MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs

Work could lead to targeted therapies

July 26, 2007

Paul Huang, graduate student in biological engineering, left, and Professor Forest White of biological engineering with a mass spectrometer showing the electrospray ionization tip of a liquid chromatography column. Samples are loaded on the column and electrosprayed into the mass spectrometer, where their mass and sequence is identified, allowing White and Huang to analyze the sample.

Brain discovery could fight deadly tumors

July 18, 2007

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