Bioengineering and biotechnology

Cancer research funding called key

NCI head gives talk

April 25, 2006

Cells are organized differently in normal and diseased cartilage (left). Now these changes can be made and studied in the lab. Here, 3-D cell clusters are precisely re-created in a tissuelike gel (right). The same cells in a conventional 2-D Petri dish look and behave much differently (inset).

MIT method allows 3-D study of cell tissue organization

April 24, 2006

Scientists find key to adaptability of embryonic stem cells

April 24, 2006

New map reveals secret of stem cell development

April 21, 2006

Research gives lazy eye theory a workout

April 14, 2006

Professor of biology Graham Walker watches two Holliston High School students -- Hannah Cohen, left, and Kristen Mirageas -- explore the PDBViewer in the TEAL classroom in the basement of the Stata Center on Friday, March 31.

Protein viewer unveiled

April 12, 2006

New tools enable large-scale studies of gene function

April 7, 2006

From left, Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond display a virus-loaded film that can serve as the anode of a battery.

Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses

April 7, 2006

Jacks earns top cancer award

April 4, 2006

Nobelist unravels smell at Picower symposium

March 29, 2006

Professors Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Peter K. Sorger and Michael B. Yaffe share a moment together in Sorger's lab. The three members of MIT's Center for Cancer Research led a team of scientists that has found links between inflammatory disease and cancer.

Studies link cancer, inflammatory disease

March 29, 2006

Scientists show that children think like scientists

March 24, 2006

MIT marine biologists Ed DeLong and Penny Chisholm check out an ocean water sample. Researchers in Chisholm's lab have shown that gene-swapping takes place among ocean plankton and resembles the flow of genes known to occur among disease-causing bacteria.

Researchers: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

March 23, 2006

A rat's whiskers help the animal create a topographic map of its surroundings in its brain, MIT researchers report.

Rat whiskers lead to brain map

March 22, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own