Bioengineering and biotechnology

Professors Alexander Klibanov, left, Jianzhu Chen and MIT researcher Jayanta Haldar discuss the 'antimicrobial paint' they have developed.

MIT's anti-microbial 'paint' kills flu, bacteria

Coating's polymers poke holes in the membranes that surround influenza viruses

November 30, 2006

Wanted: Biologists who can speak 'math,' engineers fluent in genetics

November 22, 2006

Haploid cells, which contain one copy of each chromosome, should not undergo further reduction of their chromosome number (through a type of cell division called meiosis). To prevent such a catastrophic event, haploids block the production of a protein called IME4, which triggers meiosis, by expressing antisense IME4. Failure to block sense IME4 results in the aberrant meiotic events shown above i...

Scientists find genetic oddity protects sex cells

Antisense IME4 shows nature's yin-yang economy

November 21, 2006

The series above illustrates the triple shape effect of a fastener consisting of a plate with two anchors prepared from CL(50)EG: Starting at 20 degrees Celsius, the device, in an easily-handled form, is put into a scaffold, right, which might be difficult to access (a). Increasing the temperature to 40Â C triggers unfolding and positioning into the cavity, left (figures b to d). Increasing the ...

Agile new plastics change shape with heat

Materials could aid medical and industrial processes

November 20, 2006

Chemistry graduate student Elizabeth McCoy, left, and Sarah O'Connor, assistant professor of chemistry, inspect their latest batch of periwinkle root. They are working with periwinkle seedlings to produce potential new drugs.

Periwinkle can serve as tiny chemical plant

November 15, 2006

Researchers gain traction in race against pandemics

November 15, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

Members of Team Slovenia erupt in jubilation upon learning they won the BioBrick, the grand prize for the iGEM 2006 competition. The University of Ljubljana students are, from left, Rok Tkavc, Jernej Kovac, Matej Skocaj and Jelka Pohar. Offering congratulations in front are iGEM Ambassadors James Brown of Cambridge University and Melissa Li of Georgia Tech.

Gene machine takes the prize

Cells engineered to prevent sepsis win synthetic biology competition

November 9, 2006

Scientific American names Angela Belcher Researcher of the Year

3 others from MIT rank in magazine's top 50

November 6, 2006

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth McKinley, left, and HST graduate student Nikola Kojic used the micro-rheometer in their lab to study the viscosity and stickiness of spider silk. The taffy-like 'thread' is actually a protein solution, they found.

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art

Manufactured silk could be used for artificial tendons and ligaments, sutures, parachutes and bulletproof vests

October 30, 2006

Lander named one of America's 'best leaders'

U.S. News list of 20 includes Stata architect Frank Gehry

October 27, 2006

Neuroscientists pinpoint brain site for rapid learning

October 20, 2006

MIT to welcome Amgen Scholars in 2007

October 19, 2006

MIT graduate student Chris Loose, left, and Professor Greg Stephanopoulos look for signs of bacteria. The researchers and their colleagues have custom-designed molecules that are effective in killing microbes.

MIT's anti-microbial 'grammar' posits new language of healing

Custom peptides punch holes in anthrax, staph bacteria

October 19, 2006

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MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells

Work could aid research on sickle cell anemia and malaria

October 16, 2006

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