Bioengineering and biotechnology

Postdoctoral associate Michel Godin, left, Associate Professor Scott
Manalis of biological engineering and postdoctoral associate Thomas Burg are part of an MIT team that has developed a technique to measure the mass of single cells.

New MIT technique weighs single living cells

One promising application is creation of a cheap and robust device to monitor CD4 cell numbers in AIDS patients

April 25, 2007

Tennessee students visit cell exhibit

April 25, 2007

Nobel laureate and MIT Professor of Biology H. Robert Horvitz

Horvitz will deliver Killian Lecture on April 24

April 20, 2007

Larger-scale folds develop the fastest in premature (born more than seven weeks early) infants (top), while medium-scale folds develop the fastest in older premature infants, born between seven and two weeks early (middle). In older infants and children, fine folds develop the most quickly across the brain surface (bottom).

Model helps researchers 'see' brain development

Work could facilitate early detection of autism

April 10, 2007

Researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have developed a device that allows them to control the distance between cells. The cells are placed on combs, which can be fully separated (top), slightly separated (middle) or locked together with combs in contact (bottom).

HST device draws cells close--but not too close--together

April 4, 2007

Infectious diseases to be first focus of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

March 30, 2007

MIT graduate student Timothy J. Buschman, left, and Professor Earl Miller of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have found concrete evidence that two radically different brain regions play different roles in the different modes of attention.

Neuroscientists find different brain regions fuel attention

Work could be significant in treatment of ADD

March 29, 2007

Image above shows the emergent ocean ecosystem community structure. The phytoplankton community is organized according to relative fitness in the physical, chemical, and predatory environment.

MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes

March 29, 2007

MIT professor Penny Chisholm, left, and principal research scientists Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz have created an ocean model in which the populations of "sown" microbes precisely mimic real-world patterns of the same organisms.

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing

March 29, 2007

Child's play is serious study of cause and effect

March 28, 2007

Edward Boyden, assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab, uses light to silence brain cells, which could block abnormal neuron activity associated with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson's.

MIT neuroengineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons

Work could lead to new treatments for epilepsy, Parkinson's

March 27, 2007

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

MIT IDs role of key protein in tumor growth

March 15, 2007

An experimental in vitro demonstration of the "fluidization" of a healthy human red blood cell through a microfliuidic channel at room temperature. The series of images shows how the shape of a red blood cell changes as it is squeezed through a 4 micron by 4 micron channel.

MIT shows how blood cells change shape

Work could aid understanding of malaria, other blood disorders

March 12, 2007

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HST device draws cells close--but not too close--together

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Neuroscientists find different brain regions fuel attention

MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Child's play is serious study of cause and effect

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